21/06/2016
Several municipalities organise traditional festivals with activities and gastronomy to get this product known. Some restaurants from Barcelona like Cullera de Boix choose their rice from companies located in Terres de l’Ebre with the aim of cooking the best paella in Barcelona.
The festivities dedicated to the planting and harvest of rice, in June and September, are the celebrations with more tradition and folklore in Terres de l’Ebre, a territory, where much of the economy is based on agriculture.
Throughout the month of June several municipalities in southern Catalonia organise activities, tastings and popular meals around this product that characterises them.
In the village of La Aldea, rice planting took place on 28 May, whereas its harvest will be on 10 September. At the same time, Sant Jaume celebrates rice planting with events, such as a planters’ breakfast and a guided tour in the rice fields enlivened with a sweets tasting.
The capital of Montsià has celebrated traditional rice festivals during the first weekend of June, with this cereal being planted in rice fields. In addition, the cuisine group, “The Essence of Rice”, made up of 17 establishments in Amposta, has successfully organised the Gastronomic Rice Conference to promote this product.
The municipality of Ampolla celebrates rice planting on 12 June with a demonstration of this work, activities, such as transplanting rice and cooked rice tasting, as well as musical performances.
The traditional Deltebre rice festivals are also organised with the intention of staging the different tasks carried out by planters throughout the planting process. Thus, on 17, 18 and 19 June, farmers will make demonstrations and invite the public to enter the paddy field in order to experience first-hand how to plant rice.
The results of this rice tradition can be tasted in Barcelona, in restaurants like Cullera de Boix, which is located in the centre of the city and specialises in rice dishes and paellas. This place uses the rice from Molí de Rafelet, in Deltebre, where the cereal is processed in wooden mills, the only place in Catalonia where this is done.
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