Paella Palenciana

I grew up with paella. One of my mother’s best friends was Spanish, so we often went to Spain from when I was a small child. I had a lot of Spanish friends, and through much of my teenage years we had Spanish servants, among them our cook Isabella, who came from Valencia. Paella is arguably the best-known rice dish in the world, and really you could put almost anything in it, whatever you have to hand that’s fresh; and you can vary the flavour by using pork instead of chick