Hispanophobia

Catalan and Venezian

If cichetti had existed in sixteenth century Venice, locals would have been horrified to hear them described as “Venetian tapas”. In culinary terms, the highly-spiced Venetian food of the period had much in common with that of the Iberian peninsula, which shared its taste for saffron, cinnamon, nutmeg and chilli, but any amity ended firmly at the kitche…