Cooking Paella Cadiz

Cooking Paella CadizI’d had paella before this trip. Yes, it’s good. But my perception is that food is so subjective. But people kept telling me that the paella in Spain was such a treat. Sometimes, I think people get caught up in trendy. Yes, the paella was good. This paella was cooked at a hostel where I was staying in Cadiz. I think the pan was a good three feet across. It was the largest wok I had ever seen. The man cooking the paella told me it was a paella pan. It looked like a wok to me, only a very shallow one. The hostel where I was staying cooked two to three meals a week at night. They cost five euros. On the night they fixed paella I ate with them. Plus I got to watch the cook fix the meal. We had salad and paella. It was good. At the meal, thirty-five people got together in a space that was not designed to hold thirty-five people and ate together. It was a nice little experience. The guy cooking the paella was from Alabama. He had been in Spain for three years. We talked for a while. I met a lot of Americans who had been in Spain for extended periods. But, that’s a whole ‘nother story that has nothing to do with paella.