The dish has evolved over the centuries—the original paella had no conventional meat or seafood, but was made with the more affordable snails!

Paella has become a great party dish. Not only do the current ingredients—chorizo, chicken, seafood and other proteins—make it a delicious and fun main course, but it makes a great buffet centerpiece for parties.

Celebrate National Paella Day on March 27th. Enjoy the history of paella and a paella recipe and then plan a party or a large family gathering.

Forget the same old, same old. Pour something special to talk about over Easter dinner.

Think of Lachryma Christi (“Tears of Christ”). Or Saint Joseph “Offerus” from Jean Louis Chave: It comes from France’s great Rhone appellation named after Joseph of Arimathea, who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus after the crucifixion.

Both wines are delicious and can precipitate a dinner table discussion about the meaning of Easter. Read more about them.

Find more information about wine in our Wine Section.

Serve a real Easter wine this year. Photo
courtesy Australian Lamb Council.

Please hop our way this Easter. Photo
courtesy Vosges Haut Chocolate.

Four exotic, solid chocolate bunnies are ready to hop your way:

• Amalfi Bunny (white chocolate, lemon zest and pink peppercorns)
• Barcelona Bunny (hickory-smoked almonds and grey sea salt)
• Orchid Vanilla Bunny (62% dark chocolate with Tahitian vanilla)
• Toffee Bunny (43% dark milk chocolate with toffee chunks and pink Himalayan salt).They’re tasty but petite—2.5 ounces each—so you don’t have to feel guilty about finishing the last bite.

  Find more information on these and our other favorite Easter chocolates.

  Read our full review of Vosges Haut-Chocolat.

It was just last year that two burger lovers in Seattle pondered how to take our beloved national dish to a new level.

Yes, there are gourmet breads and condiments and organic beef, but at the end of the day, it’s still a beef patty (and more recently, a chicken, lamb, pork or turkey patty).

One day, the two intrepid burger explorers decided to incorporate popular ingredients—cheese, other meats, veggies and herbs—into the beef. This has often been done in meat loaf recipes, but the concept tastes oh, so much different in a pure, all-natural, top-quality patty made of free-range beef from the Pacific Northwest.

The first Built Burger was created with a mixture of chorizo, roasted red bell peppers, caramelized Walla Walla onions, Worcestershire sauce and French sea salt. It was so good that people passed on the bun and toppings and ate it with a fork. It was called the Magnificent Chorizo Burger, and that’s not hyperbole.

The best burgers we’ve ever had. Photo © BuiltBurger.com.

• Discover more about these brilliantly-built burgers in the full review, and be sure to order a bunch.
• Check out our better burger tips.

Instead of a traditional sorbet presentation,
shape balls of sorbet into oval egg shapes
and serve in a “nest.” Photo courtesy Wine
Cellar Sorbets, a NIBBLE Top Pick Of The
Week.

To shape the sorbet into egg shapes:

1. Use plastic gloves or put your hands into thin plastic bags from the produce section.

2. Let the “eggs” freeze hard on a tray covered with plastic wrap, until serving time.

3. Put one “egg” of each color on a plate and sprinkle with jelly beans. You can also use a meringue “nest” or create a nest of lettuce cups.

4. Serve with tiny cookies, such as Byrd’s Key Lime Coolers and Razzberry Tarts.

5. You can do the same with ice cream or frozen yogurt, but it’s harder to find three bright colors.

Find more dessert ideas in our Ice Cream & Sorbet and Desserts Sections.