I’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.