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TRADITIONAL GASTRONOMY

Eat Paella on Sundays.

What can you do on Sunday in Valencia?

The valencian people have the habit on Sundays to eat the typical valencian dish: Paella, our most international plate.
Our gastronomy is world renowned by its famous dishes and by its characteristics. The Mediterranean culture are an icon of style life, because is one of most healthy diet mixed with its climate, unique in the world. All of these characteristics are the reasons why more people in the world would like one time in their life’s visit us and try to follow this style life.
Inside this context, an example of that are the meetings on Sundays to eat all the family or friends paella. Valencian people usually done as shown of this style of life.

Normally the majority of valencians join at home of parents to eat the paella, and arrive before to prepare it and to eat a bit previously the main dish.
Traditionally the paella is cooked in outdoor; its origins were in country, in response to the needs of the farmers who were working there all day. They integrated in the dish all the ingredients that have around to eat.
The origin of the name of dish comes from the container where the paella is cooked, large flat pane with handles made of iron or stainless steel Nowadays with good whether (largest time in Valencia) people goes country or mountain to make and eat Paella, a ritual to follow for all the valencian people.
Like in home is usual meet to take a bit with beer or wine around to the fire (to make the paella) a cooker person prepares the trunks to make fire and while these are burning people eats. This little lunch can be pig’s snout, olives, peanuts or Spanish omelet, as well its eat the liver which is done before the rest of the meat, and all the people likes to eat in this moment.
The original Paella (recently endowed with the appellation of denomination of origin) by the regulatory committee of chefs in the Valencian Community, who have decided the ten ingredients that can be the paella : rice, oil olive, meat (chicken and rabbit) saffron, green bean (baxoqueta), white beans (garrofon) , tomato and salt.
Finally when the paella is cooked, the family and friend join around the paella to eat in the same recipient.
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