Socarrat is the Gold at the Bottom of a Pot of Rice

When we think of the great delicacies of the world, we tend to think of highly sought after and often prohibitively expensive items that require enormous effort to source, like truffles, caviar, sea urchin, or saffron.

Or, we think of those foods that derive from highly refined methods that have been developed and mastered by a culture over decades and even centuries: the Napoleon...