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arborio rice?    • 5  Anyone know a good and preferably not too
expensive place to obtain bomba or arborio rice (for paella or
risotto) in the general Rockville area? Alternately anyone know
of a good online source? Thanks much!    1. Click to Upload a
photo (10 MB limit)   1. Trader Joe's at Federal Plaza carries
arborio rice.      1. I 2nd Trader Joes for Arborio rice. Sur La
Table has decent prices on Paella rices, Bomba and Calasperra.
Unfortunately, Bomba is really expensive for rice. If you mail
order it from La Tienda, the price goes down a lot, but it is
still expensive for rice. On the other hand, the 2 kilo bags
make a lot of paella. Even with the rice, I have found that
making paella is not such an expensive dish and great for
parties as it doesn't require that much effort. If you can chop
and not burn things and you have the right ingredients (the
rice, the saffron and the pimenton) you are set.        1. There
are a number of different arb