We all have certain things that offend us, they drive us crazy. However, the reactions of a certain Valencian social networking community about paellas have gone so dark brown that it is already an official internet joke. It began, of course, in earnest, with Valencian experts declaring what a “real paella” was and what was not. Thus, distinguishing paella from “rice with things”, Twitter took a liking to provoke Valencians. You just had to take a paella recipe from an English chef to get the whole community to comment on the atrocity he had committed.
We can put Iberian ham on sushi and we call it fusion cuisine, but you’d better not put anything else on the paella than what I say. Something similar had been happening for a long time with Neapolitans and pizza, only in those cases it was easier. The real pizzas of southern Italy are margaritas and marineras, the rest are already rare inventions. So there was nothing more than showing a pizza with, well, pineapple, to get a good number of angry reactions. However, I will not have been the only one who will have seen an American or someone from Eastern Europe ask what, how does a paella differ from, for example, a risotto. Yes, friends, although it hurts us, there are people from far away who tend to associate the Mediterranean in a single cultural and gastronomic area. After all, we believe that Chinese food is the same in Hong Kong as in Sichuan, in Shanghai, as in Tibet. And no, of course it is not.
However, what chef Dani García has shared on Twitter still seems unjustifiable.
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We confess, we do not know where the poster is from or in what language it is. We have our bets, but why shoot into the air (well, Poland). The important thing, beyond the product being advertised with a bullfighter, is the plate. Yes, it is a paella pizza.
Recovered the breath and the heart of Valencians and Neapolitans, globally speaking, of Spaniards and Italians, of Mediterranean, let’s think a bit. Rice and pizza dough is not the best thing, they are carbohydrates with carbohydrates, but rice with cheese is risotto after all (sorry, Italian readers), and both paella and risotto are not all bad with bread (about all if you are hungry), especially if it is thin dough. Out of prejudices, out of fears, that they bring us one, we want to try it. The Mediterranean diet has a new king.
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