Valencia is a lot like California.

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@chris where did you buy that paella?!? that's the one i been looking for! that’s cast iron and you can use it in a campfire or put it on a stove and in an oven, right?

wendy boucek for Kamala

@chris @blogdiva This has major witches’ cauldron vibes.

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@wendinoakland @chris FWIW: the image of witches is 100% antisemitic, and by that i mean, they’re meant to slander europeans of both Jewish and Arab ancestry. vampires are the Jewish blood libel personified.

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@blogdiva @wendinoakland

I did not know!

drukac

@blogdiva @chris

Here to nitpick with an otherwise informative thread. Chris is correct. In Valencia many people cite snails and molluscs as traditional ingredients, but not shrimp, prawns and langostinos which came from open sea fishing. The way I learned it, after chicken, labourers would add meat from species which ate the crops like, rabbits, hares, and snails. So, I’m not sure paella has exclusively kosher origins, but I would understand if kosher and halal versions evolved over time.

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@drukac @blogdiva Jewish peoples existed in Valencia and around the region for centuries alongside the Moorish rulers as the Islamic faith was more willing to have non-Muslim groups living amongst the majority. That all changed with the re-conquest of the Christian kings. So as far as food? Who knows how far back the paella form of eating goes? Roman? Visigoth? Moorish? Christian? I honestly don't know, but I am sure it has evolved with all of it!

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@blogdiva It is an old paella! I am not sure where my mom got it. She may have got it from Yaya. It is cast iron. Very easy to use anywhere and easy to clean! And the stand it is sitting on over the fire is custom made by metal working friend! We used to just have it directly on the bricks in the fireplace.

yes, it's me, liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

@drukac @chris the one with snails and seafood isn't the only one. the most common paella used to be with rabbit.

and that's the thing, depending on the original recipes you can tell if it was first developed from non-christian spanish people.

"traditional" for Spanish food is a misnomer because Spain has never a nation. it's an amalgam of nations barely glued together by imperialism.

drukac

@blogdiva @chris
Oh yes, I only used 'traditional' in the sense that Valencian communities are trying to rescue their folk history after years of having it vandalised by tourism and globalisation.

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@drukac @blogdiva if not outright supressed by authoritarians like Franco and his descendants!

(said in the stern voice of my Valencian Republican Grandfather!)