The course begins at the Mediterranean Gastronomy Center, Gasterra, in its first year of activity in Dénia. The program was presented this Monday at the provisional headquarters of the University Seu of the University of Alicante in Dénia by the director of the center, Josep Bertomeu.
The director explained that the center will work in three lines: "on the one hand the training, on the other the research and knowledge transfer and finally the third line of dissemination and university extension".
Conferences: Read in gastronomic code
With the aim of knowing publications of informative character with gastronomy as protagonist, Gasterra has organized a cycle of conferences and activities that will be developed during the next three months. All of them will be in the Center d'Art L'Estacio the 19: 00 hours.
The cycle begins on September 27 with the presentation of El llibre daurat: The history of paella com no s'ha contat mai, by the writer and poet Josep Piera. The work will be presented by the archaeologist Josep Antoni Gisbert and the journalist and writer Ángeles Ruiz.
El October 5 the presentation of the publication will take place Mediterranean Heritage, a rigorous study on our way of feeding ourselves, work of the professor of the University of Alicante and doctor in nutrition Ana Zaragoza, written together with the historian Juan V. Martín Devesa.
The conferences will continue on November 21th with the presentation of the kitchen of the Marina Alta, a work that delves into the culinary heritage and the peculiarities of the cuisine of the region written by Josep Vicent Miralles and Marisa Piles.
In December, on a date still to be confirmed, the revised edition of the Vademecum de Cocina de la Marina Alta will be presented, a work that was published for the first time in 2003 by the hand of Carlos Llorca and Ángeles Ruiz.
Recognition of figures of our gastronomy
From Gasterra we intend to make periodic tributes to outstanding figures in the cuisine of the Marina Alta. In this sense, the first proper name will be that of the chef Pepa Romans with the organization of an annual seminar in her name, which will boost the values she embodied: the development of a gastronomy rooted in the Mediterranean food culture, committed to the territory , solidary, sustainable and healthy.
The first edition of this seminar will be about the family business and the generational changeover.
Another of the names of this year will be the chef Joël Roubuchon, who died last August. It will be an annual event that will feature relevant figures of culinary research and international gastronomy.
2018 Gerontology
In line with the dependency assistance activities that the University of the University of Alicante has been developing, Gasterra will offer the 2018 Gerontology course on November 14 and 15 in the CDT of Dénia. It is a course aimed at people interested in obtaining training and useful information to care for the elderly in their care.
Research projects and recovery of traditional gastronomic heritage
Professor Ana Zaragoza, Gasterra's academic coordinator, is carrying out a project on adherence to the Mediterranean Diet in collaboration with the IES María Ibars students.
Also, in collaboration with the IECMA, MACMA and CREAMA, Gasterra has launched a project to recover the bibliographic heritage on cuisine and gastronomy of the Marina Alta. It is an initiative in collaboration with the Caja Mediterráneo Foundation and the direction of the Carmencita Chair of Studies of Gastronomic Taste of the UA that aims to perform an inventory, analysis and study, dissemination and dissemination of the documentary and bibliographic background of the writer and journalist Antonio González Pomata.
