While many mistakenly think that paella is a typical dish in the whole of Spain, it really is native to the east coast. That ...

Travel In Search of Authentic Paella—and Other Great Rice Dishes—in Valencia I had no idea what chefs could do with rice. The number of varieties I encountered was dizzying—and delicious.

The meat is cooked first in olive oil and removed from the special paella pan. Then a sofrito is made, a gently cooked seasoning mixture of onion, garlic, herbs, spices and tomato cooked until ...

Authentic paella Valenciana does not mix seafood and meat, which would be sacrilege. Iberia refers to its meat and seafood paella as "paella tipica" (typical). Article continues below this ad ...

Recently I met my first truly authentic paella and found it dramatically different from those I had previously eaten and made. As with many classics, there is no single recipe for this, the ...

If you shake the pan or move the rice, it will come out mushy.” Pumphrey said authentic paellas are always made in a broad, flat-bottom, metal paella pan set over a wood fire.

Anthropologically, the article explains, paella didn’t become the performative party food until the early 20th century, when professional chefs began to elevate it with expensive ingredients ...

Paella used to be “the essence of simplicity, even austerity, with little meat and even less excess,” three anthropologists from Universidad Catolica de Valencia wrote in a 2022 article ...