## Rooted in Place: How Spain’s Landscapes Shape Its Plates Paella and a pitcher of sangria. A restaurant overlooking the sea. This is the kind of scene you might conjure when imagining dining in Spain. You could come to Valencia, sit down to that exact meal, and leave the table feeling happy and satisfied. But that’s just one dish in a country whose cuisine spans seaside to summit. Spain has approximately 5,000 miles of coast, mountain ranges where peaks push past 10,000 feet, wide fields that inspired poets like Antonio Machado, and islands where narrow roads will take you from the most…