tapas the concept has varied origins and interpretations in the modern world of culinary diversity. there is the story of the wise spanish king alfonso the 10th. during an illness he was advised to take small amounts of food with a glass of wine in between meals to sustain his strength during the day. on recovery the wise king apparently decreed that no wine was to be served in the inns of castile without the accompaniment of something small to eat, thus protecting the poverty-stricken...