Paella is one of Spanish cuisine's most prized dishes and the Valencian recipe par excellence. Around the City of Porcelain, "paella" is a way of life, a time-honoured symbol of local customs, perfectly captured in this composition, which shows an agricultural farming family cooking up freshly harvested vegetables, surrounded by the tools of the land, all six local personalities enjoying the tempting aromas of rosemary and orange blossom.