The night of the Cream is approaching, March 19, which puts an end to the Fallas and reduces all the monuments of the commissions to ashes. Among the hundreds of Fallas monuments that still look complete in the streets of València, is that of the Matías Perelló-Luis de Santangel commission, which is willing to be burned to try to also make the barbarities - or "arrocities" - that are committed disappear. against paella.
'Arrocities that scare the Fallera' is the work of this commission that uses satire and Fallas art to denounce "the culinary atrocities that have been perpetrated, throughout the planet, against the most battered dish in Spanish gastronomy." : the paella". The monument shows a fallera horrified by different crazy situations in which this very international Valencian dish has been distorted.
The monument, the work of Ximo Esteve, consists of a structure centered on the bust of a 10-meter-high fallera, whose construction has required laborious work to assemble more than 1,000 pieces until achieving an image that looks from above with horror. the 'rice'.
Around it, there are scenes with characters such as the British chef Jamie Oliver, who published a recipe for rice with chorizo on his social networks and called it 'paella', as well as chef Gordon Ramsay with his pea, shrimp and chorizo paella .
Renowned Spanish cuisine professionals such as Pepe Rodríguez and his “Valencian paella” stock with turkey, or the Basque chef David de Jorge, popularly known as Robin Food, who described garrofó as “inedible,” are not immune to criticism.
Esteve has even collected extravagant moments in the falla that have gone viral on social networks such as challenges that end with the paella on the floor for wanting to turn it over, as well as cartoon characters. For example, he mentions Homer Simpson, who opened season 34 by cooking a paella for his family with chicken, tomato, shrimp, mussels, lots of fried saffron and chorizo.
The failure also does not forget the paella sandwich launched in the United Kingdom and the pizza-paella that was marketed in Poland, with peas and squid.
Even in the Valencian capital, there are many "rice crimes" that are committed, where some restaurants adapt the paella recipe to the foreign palate or serve "a very outdated rice that makes them deserve to burn in the purifying fire of the cream for defaming paella and fool the tourists who visit Valencia". And these cases, of course, are also reflected in the failure in question, which has been sponsored by a well-known rice brand.
