Talk:Gazpacho/Archive 1

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Gazpacho is not usually spicy at all. You don't add any kind of spices to make it spicy.

Jose

Bread as main identifier?

Since bread is not used in many of the Gazpacho recipes, wouldn't the main identifier be that it is served cold? I realize this also defines Borscht, but it seems a closer identifier than the use of bread in the recipe

Bread is added in a version of ==gazpacho==..but without water or vinegar. and its name is ==Salmorejo== Rafael Rivera Lopez (talk) 19:24, 23 March 2013 (UTC)Rafael Rivera Lopez

I've never even heard of gazpacho made with bread. Garnished with croutons perhaps, or served with bread to dip in it, yes. An extensive search for recipes didn't reveal a single one that called for bread in the main recipe either. On the other hand, pureeing seems to have become the norm but I started making gazpacho in the 1960's from a recipe my dad heard on the radio and that one didn't call for any pureeing. I think too many Wiki articles on food are tainted by editor's personal experience. SentientParadox (talk) 18:51, 15 April 2018 (UTC)

Andalusian here, this article is wrong. Gazpacho doesn't have bread as it's a drink. That would make it salmorejo. By definition gazpacho does not have bread! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.55.164.70 (talk) 20:58, 19 August 2018 (UTC)

Ajo

Some spanish gazpachos are having as much garlic raw, that one tear despairly,and there are gazpachos without bread at all. The stale bread is for get thicker and nourishing. The gazpacho was poor person meal in southern Spain, not only Andalusia. Anselmocisneros 19:27, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

gazpacho salad?

Does anyone know about gazpacho salad? It's a dish that I had in Mississippi that's apparently in every Church cookbook on the Gulf coast for the last 300 years. Basically it's all the ingredients of gazpacho layered with crushed hard tack and set aside until the bread soaks up most of the liquid. Does anyone know the history of the dish? Or how it became such a staple in the South?

Red Dwarf

Serving it cold played a major role in British TV show Red Dwarf... AnonMoos (talk) 09:02, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

I think this should be mentioned. It's a huge part of one particular Red Dwarfepisode and I think many people will only have heard of Gazpacho soup (and the fact it is commonly served cold) because of Red Dwarf's memorable episode. I'm not sure how to include it without making it sound like a trivia section. Jilly (talk) 00:44, 16 August 2009 (UTC)

I would include in a "Popular Culture" section, but only if you could find a couple more examples.

Concerning a Popular Culture section: a gazpacho spiked with sleeping pills plays an important role in Almodóvar's Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Ngfio (talk) 21:07, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Ah, and of course Spanish Wikipedia has some more examples. Ngfio (talk) 21:11, 23 November 2021 (UTC)

Please see my Marjie Taylor Greene gaff offered below- if that feature ever forms — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:1C2:4E00:2100:9D88:6D48:F277:11DF (talk) 10:58, 11 February 2022 (UTC)

Soup or juice?

Why is the gazpacho named as a soup everywhere but in Spain? The ingredients are not boiled at all, which seems to be one of the major characteristics according to Wikipedia ("soup"). I think it would be more appropiate to define it as a kind of juice or just "squeezed salad".

(The definition for soup in Wikipedia reads as: "Soup is a food that is made by combining ingredients such as meat or vegetables in stock or hot/boiling water, until the flavor is extracted, forming a broth. It is sometimes confused with stew.") —Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.54.142.178 (talk) 13:16, 2 June 2008 (UTC)

I agree partly with you there. It's not cooked and so really is more of a juice - but it's popularly referred to as a soup. Anyone wanting to learn about it would be looking in the direction of soups.--Tuzapicabit (talk) 22:43, 11 June 2008 (UTC)

I'd suggest that's an inadequacy of wikipedia's definition of soup. Saluton (talk) 00:23, 11 July 2008 (UTC)

I’ve seen gazpacho-like dishes described as sopas de verano in Spain. — Chameleon 12:44, 1 August 2009 (UTC)

I've had it all over Andalucia served in a glass, not a bowl, and they usually use slightly overripe vegetables as it is an efficient way of using up leftover vegetables. Kind of a Spanish V-8 if you will. Paella is another excellent example of using leftovers. Much of Spanish cuisine was developed by the peasants as the aristocracy ate primarily French cuisine.76.181.202.201 (talk) 22:28, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Missing information

Please add the quantity of the ingredients to the recipe. Soler97 (talk) 05:52, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

Also add what the bread is soaked in? Seems to be missing a step. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.246.44.152 (talk) 22:06, 23 July 2011 (UTC)

Gazpacho in its Andalusian kind is made it mostly from Fruits: tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers and some vegetables : onions and garlic. Its not a soup, neither hot or cold, its not cooked or bolied, but blended together with olive oil, water, salt and olive oil. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rafael Rivera Lopez (talk • contribs) 19:13, 23 March 2013 (UTC)