26-29 Nov. 2015 Gloria López Morales The year of grace of 2015 almost comes to an end by leaving sole traces in the memorial we are writing, as the processes of rescue, safeguarding and promotion of our gastronomic heritage are strengthened. Among the events I would like to highlight the impact of the national meeting of traditional cooks held in Morelia in the month of August. It is difficult to...
Rapporteurships lll World Forum of Mexican Gastronomy
Mexico City, from November 26 to 29, 2015 Dr. Luis Ignacio Gómez Arriola, General Rapporteur In Mexico City, having as headquarters the National Center for Arts and Studies Churubusco, the Third World Forum of Mexican Gastronomy was held from November 26 to 29, 2015, which had a large participation of traditional cooks, exhibitors, cultural promoters, specialists, students and academics. With a...
Culinary Roots Mazatlan 2015
From October 15 to 27, the international culinary event “Culinary Roots 2015” was held in Mazatlan, Sin. by the Sinaloense Gastronomic Collective COSINAR which aims to transform the image of Sinaloa through its traditional cuisine, to preserve and value the culinary traditions and customs of our state. The Secretary of Tourism Francisco Cordova expressed at the opening of the event...
The Beijing Declaration closes the first important Slow Food event in China
“The environment needs protection and the peasants need dignity, just like our food.” The Slow Food Beijing Festival was held from September 23 to 26 thanks to the collaboration between Slow Food China, Slow Food International, Beijing Design Week and the Free Trade Zone of Beijing Airport. The festival offered a new Slow perspective to the country with an old food culture and...
The traditional cooks of Yucatan
The traditional cooks of Yucatan: they find their Italian counterpart, the “Cesarine” and they are a success in the Italo-Mexican Night of the Milan Expo 2015 September 12, 2015 – The aromas of turkey in black recado and shrimp in achiote joined those of green lasagna and meat ragu in a delicious encounter between traditional Mexican and Italian cuisine at the Expo Milano 2015...
Culture and Gastronomic Policy in Mexico
I. The CCGM appreciates the invitation to participate in a forum of this relevance, especially if we take into account that on August 4 the President of the Republic, Mr. Enrique Peña Nieto, proposed generating public policies that make Mexican Gastronomy a strategic line for the development of the Nation. Attending lectures and meetings of traditional cooks in Italy at this time, Dr. Gloria...
I National Meeting of Traditional Cooks
Members of the Conservatory of Gastronomic Culture Sinaloense AC chaired by Mr. Jaime Félix Pico, attended the First National Meeting of Traditional Cooks, in the city of Morelia, Michoacán, last Thursday, August 20 and the V National Meeting of State Delegates of the Conservatory of the Mexican Gastronomic Culture SC Dr. Gloria López Morales presides, which was developed with the presence of 40...
General Cedillo style drunk stew
Among the traditional dishes of the middle area of San Luis Potosí stands out the drunken stew, cooked with various types of meat (chicken, beef, pork and kid), jerky, sausage, vegetables (potatoes, carrots, corn, chayote, cactus and zucchini), herbs, chili peppers (Chinese and piquin), olives, almonds, raisins and pulque. The dish was already used in the region of Ciudad del Maiz, S. L. P...
Tamales de cinturita
THERE ARE TAMALLLLLEEEEIIIIIIIIIS! By Patricia Jiménez Pons Delegate of the CCGM State of Morelos This delicious tradition that unites two parties through food, starts on January 6, Day of Los Santos Reyes or La Epifanía, when the family, the friends, office workers, merchants, students and even politicians, share an enormous thread, adorned with dried fruit and sugar, that inside it hides one or...
Do not see them eat, or they will get sick from bad air
(The food in the indigenous offerings of gratitude to the airs) Very close to the first harvests, when the tender ears adorn the cornfield, when our peasants travel their fields thanking nature for the gift for their families, ancestral rites arise to correspond to the lords of the air. They are real and they are alive; the rites of gratitude, such as the propitiatory, spiritual elevation and...
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