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Published 2014
Paella is a kind of salmagundi of a dish: even its origins are mixed, combining a Roman vessel (the patella, which morphed into the modern flat paella pan) with the Arabic import of rice to the region. There are plenty of paella purists out there who will argue the finer points of the dish, but to do so is to miss the point: with the exception of paella Valenciana (which is just chicken and rabbit), the very concept of paella is all about using what
