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BOOKS 
27th February 2024 NEW BOOK ‘PAELLA LOVERS’ (IN ENGLISH) BY CHEF DAVID MONTERO
Paella is known the world over as one of Spain’s most popular dishes. Originating from Valencia it emerged, like a lot of the best foods, as a worker’s favourite that was traditionally cooked over an open fire. The beauty of paella lies in it being a dish that is flexible, one in which the cook […]
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Food 
7th February 2024 EATING PAELLA AT ‘YUSO’ IN THE HISTORIC CENTRE OF VALENCIA
If paella is your dish of choice, ‘Restaurante Yuso’ is a good place to be! Serving a wide variety of paellas – the traditional Spanish dish born in Valencia – Yuso has a selection of menus for weekends, evenings and lunch. With two branches, located on Calle Cruz and Plaza Carmen, you can enjoy authentic […]
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Food 
10th October 2023 COOKING CLASS WITH ‘MY FIRST PAELLA’
There are three important tips to consider when making paella. Did I know what they are before my adventure today? Absolutely not. But the chefs at ‘My First Paella’ were willing to show me. Our group met outside Ruzafa market, hungry to cook one of the two traditional rice dishes of the day: paella con […]
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food and drink 
20th September 2023 VALENCIA SHARES PAELLA WITH THE WORLD AND ‘BIERWINKEL’ BRINGS VALENCIAN CRAFT BEERS TO VALENCIA!
As part of the VI Edition of the “World Paella Day”, the IV Edition of the World Paella Day Cup was celebrated , in which 12 chefs from different parts of the world compete to see who makes the best paella. It was in the Town Hall Square in Valencia in a party in which […]
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Food 
5th September 2023 A PLETHORA OF PAELLA
Paella has become a gastronomic delight with a truly international reach and with Spanish restaurants, all over the globe, featuring the rice dish on its menu. Yet its origins are in Valencia. Any proud Valencian will tell you that if you’ve ever had something calling itself paella outside Valencia…that really all you’ve had is rice […]
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Food 
5th December 2022 ‘PETERPAELLAS’ … A USEFUL APP!
A local resident of Catadau (Valencia) has created an app to cook, get together and enjoy paellas in groups! Pedro Barberá has devised a collaborative economy platform where amateur cooks and diners come together to share a paella gastronomic experience in Valencia. It’s not Tinder, but this app is about gastronomy dating because ‘Peterpaellas’ is […]
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Food 
20th September 2022 EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH DIRECTOR JOSÉ CUÑAT OF ‘LOCOS POR LA PAELLA’
24/7 Valencia: What is your aim? Jose Cuñat of LOCOS POR LA PAELLA: Our aim is to explain the true History of Valencian paella and its recipes from its early origins. After a long period of investigation over a number of years, the time has come to present our research in a public way, after […]
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Food 
19th September 2022 World Paella Day (September 20)
24/7 VALENCIA: What is World Paella Day? WORLD PAELLA DAY: “World Paella Day is a recognition of the most universal dish of Spanish gastronomy. A day in which Valencians share our great dish with the rest of the world to celebrate, beyond recipes and ingredients, the internationality of the paella. A meal of humble Valencian […]
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food and drink 
19th September 2022 The “World Paella Day Cup” is celebrated with “Valencian Craft Beer”!
VALENCIA SHARES PAELLA WITH THE WORLD AND BIERWINKEL BRINGS VALENCIAN CRAFT BEERS TO THE EVENT…. As part of the V Edition of the “World Paella Day” on September 20th, the III Edition of the World Paella Day Cup will be held, in which 10 chefs from different parts of the world will compete live to […]
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Food 
19th September 2022 PAELLA GIVEN ‘PROTECTED STATUS’ AS A CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT DISH
Nothing is more synonymous with the culture and identity of Valencia than the classic paella dish. Paella is to be granted the status of ‘an asset of cultural interest’ in order to preserve the recipe and cultural tradition of the iconic Spanish meal. A declaration by the Valencian government states that “Paella is not only […]
