Paella

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Paella

Postby zafra52 on Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:34 pm

At one of the lunches in a cruise ship, the lady next to me told me she had been in Spain a few times on holidays and she was very fond of Spanish food. Once of the dishes on offer in the menu was paella. With her permission, I took a picture of her dish. I explained to her that there are many variations of paella not only in Spain (more than 1200 variations at the last count), but also they cook paella in Latin America and the Philippines. Let's not count the paellas of any chef or cook that has tried to put “a personal touch” to this iconic dish, I told her. I added that “a true authentic Spanish flavour can only be obtained by using Spanish ingredients, any other substitutes would give you a pale approximation”. When she finished eating, I asked her how was it. She said “the looks were all there, but not the flavours, it’s insipid”.

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Re: Paella

Postby gstark on Tue Mar 14, 2023 9:12 am

zafra52 wrote:When she finished eating, I asked her how was it. She said “the looks were all there, but not the flavours, it’s insipid”.



Cruise ship "cooking".

See also "hotel cooking" and "convention centre cooking".

C'est no more.

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Re: Paella

Postby ozimax on Tue Mar 14, 2023 10:06 am

Good Spanish Paella is delicicoso !
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Re: Paella

Postby zafra52 on Sun Mar 26, 2023 10:45 am

C'est no more.


:biglaugh:

Good Spanish Paella is delicicoso !


Ozi, this was the case of good looks and no flavours. Similar to those hamburgers you see people pretending they are eating in tv.

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