How about an authentic, traditional paella made with water rats and eels? " ‘The peasants would cook the rice in a frying pan and accompany it with whatever th

How about an authentic, traditional paella made with water rats and eels? " ‘The peasants would cook the rice in a frying pan and accompany it with whatever they could find. This would normally be water rats and eels,’ explains respected Valencian chef Rafael Vidal in an interview with El País. ‘These were more like rabbits than the modern sewer rats found in cities’ "[0] It seems these are actually water voles: "Water vole meat was one of the main ingredients of early paellas, along with eel and butter beans. Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibáñez described the Valencia custom of eating water voles in Cañas y Barro (1902), a realistic novel about life among the fishermen and peasants near lake Albufera."[1] [0] https://jbcrocket.medium.com/anyone-for-rat-and-eel-paella-the-spanish-foods-invented-in-times-of-scarcity-96495aea6365 https://jbcrocket.medium.com/anyone-for-rat-and-eel-paella-t... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paella https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_water_vole https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_water_vole