There are many visitors who can already think of the exhibition this summer. “Menjars de la Terra. The gastronomic legacy of González Pomata” At the Teulada-Moraira Auditorium. Organized by Carmencita Chair from studies on gastronomic taste University of AlicanteIt can be visited until February 3 in cooperation with the Akdeniz Foundation. This is the third itinerary that the exhibition takes after crossing the area. Mediterranean Foundation and Alicante City University Venue.
The exhibition is based on a documentary archive consisting of multiple documents. 13,000 documents more graphics than family INFORMATION reporter when he died, he donated to the Fundación Mediterráneo. They represent a fund of incalculable value because they show work of thirty years Compilation of ethnographic, culinary and cultural information on the entire geography of Alicante.
This collection, kept in the Documentary Archive of the Fundación Mediterráneo and inventoried and catalogued by the UA’s Carmencita president, crystallized in an exhibition this is a faithful portrait of him important transformations Products produced only in half a century in the geography of the province of Alicante, in the ways of working and production, in trade and agriculture, in gastronomy, in festivals and ultimately in their own style modus vivendi.
One of the aims of this exhibition is to fully coincide with the work on display. Teulada Auditorium Moraira developing since the program to hurtBy valuing the traditional cuisine and gastronomic heritage of Marina Alta, we try to raise awareness about the importance of preserving this heritage. traditional gastronomic heritageValue and care for it to achieve a delicious, healthy and sustainable diet.
The exhibition was organized by the director at the Teulada Moraira Auditorium. Maite Serrat curated by journalist and food writer angels ruiz By the person in charge of the Fundación Mediterráneo Archive, Mari Carmen Velasco. They sought the scientific advice of the director of the Carmencita Gastronomic Taste Studies Chair. Josep Beranbeu-Mestre and teachers Maria Tormo Santamaria and Inés Antón Dayas. Design of the award-winning exhibition Silver Emporia Award 2021 The best combination of a temporary, portable and traveling exhibition, José Luis Navarro (Zero Point) and Sergi Hernández.
Professor Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, director of the chair, stated that he is “gratified by the collaborative alliance established between institutions to value and disseminate such an important and representative heritage of Europe”. Alicante’s gastronomic culture So is González Pomata’s legacy.”
Antonio González Pomata devoted a large part of his career to defense and spread Cultural and gastronomic value of the province of Alicante. Interested in saving Alicante’s ethnographic heritage, he was the organizer of the Menjars de la Terra editorial project and a number of projects with the support of the newspaper INFORMACIÓN. Gastronomy WeeksOrganized between 1987 and 1994 to re-evaluate the traditional cuisine and creations unique to the province of Alicante, relevant social lawIt reaches an important weight in the reformulation of provincial gastronomic tourism.
These conferences were rescued by INFORMATION last year. renewed format, and overall they have had remarkable success on tour 35 restaurants from all regions From the province of Alicante. More than 5,000 diners They passed by the tables of the participating restaurants and tasted the treats of the restaurants. rich and diverse Alicante gastronomy.
The exhibition explains:l graphic and journalistic material The importance of this heritage that will contribute to the cultural history of the people of Alicante, their representation in food and their cultural codes, the forms of partnership and the history of the transformations in their gastronomic sensitivities.
view Alicante photographers He is especially featured in the exhibition of Perfecto Arjones (1943-2021), a photojournalist for the newspaper INFORMACIÓN (1943-2021), who regularly works on González Pomata’s projects.
main purpose Carmencita Chair to develop activities research, dissemination and education in the field of gastronomy. Currently, the Carmencita president is also running another exhibition titled “Spices: A Universe of Flavor”, which will open on September 15 at CEIP Jesús Navarro Jover in Novelda. Due to the demand for the exhibition due to its didactic nature, this will be the thirteenth program of the exhibition. The exhibition was organized in collaboration with the University of Alicante’s Carmencita Chair of Gastronomic Taste Studies. Akdeniz Foundation can be visited at Teulada Moraira Auditorium until 3 February. Carrer d’Orba, 2 from Teulada.