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Diálogos de Cocina 2023 will cover today’s gastronomy from end to end

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20/01/2023

  • On 13 and 14 March, the ninth edition of the congress will be held in Donostia-San Sebastián to promote the diversity of views on gastronomy and all that it entails.
  • The writer Juan Villoro, the chefs Jenny Dorsey, Lucía Freitas and María Nicolau, the journalist Dan Saladino and the choreographer Jon Maya will be some of the names that will be sitting at the table in San Sebastian, promoted by Euro-Toques, the Basque Culinary Center and Mugaritz.
  • Tickets to attend these two interdisciplinary conferences are now available on the website.

The banquet that Diálogos de Cocina has organised for 2023 will be dedicated to dissecting gastronomy from end to end. On 13 and 14 March, the always unique gastronomic congress will travel around the sector to imagine new stories and possibilities around it. It will travel to all the islands that make it up like Gulliver did in Jonathan Swift’s novel, with new eyes to open up new perspectives and, in the same way, to open up to discovery.

Donostia-San Sebastián will once again be the venue for this menu of the day consisting of knowledge, debates and exchanges with top-level speakers such as the Mexican chronicler Juan Villoro, one of the most renowned writers in Latin America (King of Spain Prize in 2010) and author of books such as La noche navegable and El testigo, the chef and activist Jenny Dorsey (USA), who challenges the status quo of the world’s cultural heritage, the chef and activist Jenny Dorsey (USA), and the author of the book La noche navegable (The Navigable Night). The event will also feature British journalist and researcher Dan Saladino, presenter of the BBC radio programme The Food Programme and author of the book Eating to Extinction.

At the same table will sit the cooks Lucía Freitas, chef at A Tafona (Santiago de Compostela), who is behind projects such as Amas da terra, which gives a voice to the women who sustain gastronomy in the region, María Nicolau (El Ferrer de Tall), the Catalan who has decided to break bad eating habits with her book Cocina o barbarie (Cooking or Barbarism) or the veterinarian, poet and essayist, author of Tierra de mujeres (Land of Women), María Sánchez.

They will be joined by the ethnographer and film director Eugenio Monesma, with more than 40 years dedicated to documenting popular gastronomic traditions and forgotten trades, the Gipuzkoan dancer and choreographer Jon Maya, founder of the award-winning company Kukai Dantza, the performative DJ with a presence at festivals such as Sónar and Primavera Sound Brava, the young chef and collaborator of El Comidista Claudia Polo (Soul in the Kitchen) and the ideologist of the congress itself and chef of Mugaritz, Andoni Luis Aduriz. New names will be announced in the coming weeks, as well as other pre-congress activities that will take place through digital channels.

The Basque Culinary Center will be the stage where people will reflect aloud on issues such as creativity, diversity, memory, sustainability and generational change. Tickets for this edition can already be purchased through the Musikaze platform and will give access to the two days of the interdisciplinary congress. After the conference, which on this occasion will only be held in person, the talks and round tables will be available on the Diálogos de Cocina Youtube channel, as well as on its website.

Literature, music, architecture, cuisine and history will serve, for yet another edition, to take a look at gastronomic and human geography. A congress with a difference, a space for thought like no other that will continue to fulfil in its ninth edition its vocation to share learning and inspire all generations involved in the restaurant industry.