Last Sunday, coinciding with the Mercat del Riurau and the Fira de Brocanters de Jesús Pobre on the first Sunday of the month, MACMA presented the recipe book of traditional sweets The pastry shop Marina Alta. A work that vindicates the validity of lifelong sweets and at the same time underlines the essence of proximity ingredients, as the mayor of Jesús Pobre pointed out in the introduction of the book, Javier Scotto, and the Councilor for Culture, Josep Fornés. Already in the presentation of the volume, MACMA manager Jovi Seser summarized the nearly one hundred recipes that guide the work and that, beyond the Moorish imprint that characterizes them, intend to claim their reintegration in the kitchens of the houses of the region and, above all, in restaurant kitchens.
Boosteria to the Marina Alta, a project conceived by Vicent Ortuño, founder of MACMA, was published ten years ago to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the expulsion of the Moriscos and sold out during the first year of publication. The current reissue of the work aims to bring this gastronomic legacy closer to new generations and, in addition, it has been distributed to bookstores in the region and neighboring regions to satisfy the demand for copies and thus broaden the echo of the initiative. Not in vain, MACMA will continue to present the work throughout the month of December. Next Saturday the 7th, in fact, the book will be presented in Sagra (City Hall, 19 p.m.) while the following Sunday the recipe book will arrive in Vall de Gallinera (Benialí, 13 p.m.) within the IV Festa de l'Oli. The following week, on Wednesday, December 11, the volume will arrive at the Publics Bookstore in Dénia in the format of a presentation-snack.
