Editing French fries (section)

===Spain===
French fries as we know them may have been invented in [[Spain]], the first European country in which the potato appeared from the [[New World]] [[colony|colonies]].<ref>{{Cite web|last=Rupp|first=Rebecca|date=8 January 2015|title=Are French Fries Truly French?|url=https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/are-french-fries-truly-french|url-status=dead|access-date=26 October 2021|website=Culture|language=en|archive-date=18 January 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220118212851/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/are-french-fries-truly-french}}</ref> Professor Paul Ilegems, [[curator]] of the [[Frietmuseum]] in [[Bruges]], Belgium, believes that [[Teresa of Ávila|Saint Teresa of Ávila]] of Spain cooked the first french fries, and refers also to the [[tradition]] of frying in [[Mediterranean cuisine]] as evidence.<ref name="ilegems1">{{cite book|last=Ilegems|first=Paul|title=De Frietkotcultuur|publisher=Loempia|year=1993|isbn=978-90-6771-325-2|language=nl}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Swalec|first=Andrea|date=28 July 2010|title=In Belgium, frites aren't small potatoes|language=en|work=Reuters|url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-food-fries-idUSTRE66R1JI20100728|access-date=26 October 2021|archive-date=3 March 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220303052447/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-food-fries-idUSTRE66R1JI20100728|url-status=live}}</ref>