Asturias will host the Welfare Congress organized by Cadena SER on December 10, 11 and 12 at the Palacio Valdés Theater in Avilés. Under the title ‘Well-being and Gastronomy. Kitchen of Landscape ‘will feature personalities of the stature of Manuel Jabois, Boris Izaguirre, Elena Arzak or Gonzalo Miró. The event is sponsored by the Government of the Principality of Asturias, Asturias Natural Paradise and the collaboration of Avilés Town Hall and Asturian Beef.
The Vice Minister of Tourism, Graciela Blanco, explained in ‘Let’s Live, it’s two days Asturias‘why that conjunction was chosen. “Gastronomy is a powerful motivation to travel and Asturias has an undeniable potential in this matter. Never like now have sustainability and biodiversity trends served to position us as a gastronomic destination. We understand that gastronomy in Asturias is a true reflection of its territory and we intend to unite biodiversity and landscape, adding to it the talent of the restaurateurs “.
Program
The opening day under the title of ‘Good eating, good drinking, good living. Culinary traditions and wine tourism, signs of identity and development of a territory ‘will feature voices from gastronomy such as Nacho Manzano placeholder image o Elena Arzak, Juanjo Millás o the journalist National Gastronomy Award winner, Paz Ivison and Victor Manuel. Some dialogues that will be in charge of the gastronomic writer Fernando Huidobro.
On Saturday the 11th under the heading of ‘Contemporary culinary art and its philosophy. The kitchen and happiness’, will be found in Avilés the philosopher and former president of the Senate, Manuel Cruz, the chef Marcos Morán, the restaurant director of Quique Dacosta, Manuela Romeralo and the SER collaborator, Teodoro Leon Gross. The second session will feature Boris Izaguirre, Gonzalo Miró, the Director of Marketing and Communication of the Michelin Guide, Mayte Carreño and the director of the Alicia Foundation, Toni Massanés under the title ‘But who kills the great chefs? Television competitions and gastronomy, when audiences can eat the talent. ‘
The congress will close on Sunday 12 with the dialogue entitled ‘The kitchen and the writers. The fork takes the floor. ‘ They will take part in it Manuel Jabois, the National Poetry Prize, Sara Mesa; the National Gastronomy Award, Rosa Rivas and Ayanta Barilli, finalist for the Planeta Award in 2018.
It is expected that all of them will become great ambassadors of Asturias and that their influence will go beyond the congress to follow the path started by the Principality some years ago in tourism and whose The latest milestone is reflected in the data with which Asturias closed September, the best in the historical series. “The model offered by the region so accepted in the pandemic era has come to stay,” pointed out the deputy minister.
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