Walking down the streets of Pamplona during the San Fermin Festival, we were accosted by the incredible delicacies of street vendors. From this rather enormous paella to fried potatoes, chocolate dipped fruits and ice creams, it felt like walking through Willy Wonka’s factory- you never knew what you’d see next. I had never seen a paella like this, it had so many different seafood ingredients I stopped trying to identify things.
Paella is a rice based dish typically from the Valencia region of Spain. Consisting of rice, veggies and often seafood or chorizo, the ingredients are cooked in a wide shallow two handled pot. The best paella is cooked over open flame producing a layer of toasted rice on the bottom of the pan. It’s incredibly fragrant and popularly it’s shared amongst a large group.
Fortunately it wasn’t all food on the streets of Pamplona and the food stalls quickly faded into a larger market of clothes, souvenirs and imported goods.
I love imagery of this poor crab atop the seafood paella, sort of like a King of the Dead.
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There’s tons of great food and things to see in Spain. We attended the San Fermin Festival, commonly called the running of the bulls. It’s in July, the swing of festival season across Europe.
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