The Best 100 Tapas. The Best 100 Tapas has received the Gourmand Award for the best cookbook on Latin Cuisine. Insight into this thrilling world of tapas is provided here by Esperanza Luca de Tena (winner of Spain's National Gastronomy Award 2001 and the prize awarded by the Cofradia de la buena mesa, the country's good cooking guild) whose own interest in writing is only matched by a love of cooking.