Black rice with cuttlefish

Despite the ferocious color, squid ink is used for its delicate, briny flavor, and is widely present in Spain’s rice-obsessed Levant region of Valencia, and also Catalunya. Andalucía, too, loves it, and David’s dish with cuttlefish or squid uses local rice from the Doñana marshes just to the north. “It is very absorbant rice,” he advises. “So it needs three times its quantity in water. The Valencians developed it here in the 19th century when they di