Seafood paella

If possible, use a traditional paella dish to make this grand Spanish classic, otherwise a very large frying pan will do. Spain discovered rice thanks to the Moors who cultivated extensive rice fields in the lagoons near Valencia; from there, rice and risotto emigrated to Italy—a surprising fact. The rice lagoons survive and their cooked spin-offs, arroces, have become Spanish staples as well as a tourist cliché. Only a handful of restaurants in the province of Almeria (south of the