Paella with Noodles

In the sleepy village of Tarbena just a few miles from Benidorm — that open-air asylum of fun, food and drink and, of course, capitalism – there is a restaurant called Casa Pinet, which is a veritable shrine to Communism.

The one-armed, bereted patron, Jerónimo Pinet, is a dedicated Communist. His walls are adorned with statues of Marx and Che Guevara and revolutionary posters, with effigies of Thatcher and Reagan hanging in nooses from the beams of this lit