The Brazilian city of Santos, in the state of Sao Paulo, has proposed a challenge to Dénia: reworking the most traditional recipes of our cuisine with the indigenous products of its cuisine. A reinterpretation that has launched students and teachers on both sides of the Atlantic.
Santos is part of UNESCO's Network of Creative Cities of Cinema and has offered UNESCO's other creative cities participation in this initiative. In Dénia, it has been the students of IES María Ibars who have collected the gloves of the Brazilians, a project that mixes learning, play and innovation.
This project challenges each city to record images of the elaboration of a traditional local recipe with native products. The recipe will be visualized by the students of the schools and universities of Santos, who can ask questions and express their doubts before reworking the recipe using their own products or elements. From Santos, they will also send images of a her recipe to be cooked in the style of the other city.
This Monday, students of the Maria Ibars have cooked in the CDT of Denia two well-known recipes of the Navy, rooted in the customs of the land and sea. María Domínguez and Ruth Montaner have made tomacat pancakes with sangatxo and herbs with raisins and pine nuts, and Ángel Molinero and Rocío Pastor have prepared a Cruet Of rock fish. All this under the direction of the professors Nuria Pérez and Adelia Vicente.
The images that have been recorded in Dénia will be sent to Brazil so that the students begin to work in the adaptation of the two dishes to their territorial and gastronomic culture. The result will also be sent on video so that this culinary fusion can be valued from Dénia. Subsequently, it will be the students of Santos who will send their gastronomic proposal to the Dianans to re-elaborate in their own way.
