A cold Spanish soup made from raw vegetables, traditionally tomatoes, cucumbers, and peppers — liquid summer served in a bowl, refreshing as a dive into cool water on a scorching day.
From Mozarabic, influenced by Arabic 'caspa' meaning 'residue' or 'fragments,' referring to the bread pieces originally used to thicken the soup. This word carries the fingerprints of medieval Spain, when Arabic, Latin, and local languages blended like ingredients in the soup itself.
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