Torta

Torta is a culinary term that can, depending on the cuisine, refer to cakes, pies, flatbreads, sandwiches, or omelettes.

Torta
TypeFlatbread, cake, sandwich, or omelette
Place of originSpain, Mexico, Italy, Malta, Slovakia, Bosnia, Croatia, Sweden, Albania

Usually, it refers to:

  • cake or pie in South America, much of Europe, and southern Philippines
  • flatbread in Spain
  • a type of sandwich in Mexico
  • a type of omelette in northern Tagalog-speaking areas of the Philippines.

’Torth’- Welsh for ‘loaf’ is of the same derivation (Latin: torta)

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