Spain is the fifth country in the world, with “Michelin Star”.And between the eight best restaurants in the world, three of them are from Spain.
In the International School of Gastronomy “Fernando Perez”, in Valladolid (North-west of Spain), there are 65 foreigners people, that come to learn how to cook in Spain.Daniel Méndez is their teacher; he was the winner of the National Contest of tapas 2011, with the tapa “Good news of our land”.
Daniel Méndez cooking his original tapa
Daniel explains that this tapa means that if we compare the above with the news below, the above news are: good cheese, good meat, good news for Gastronomy, because our cuisine triumphs beyond our borders.This tapa is made with a rice paper and inside it Daniel put a piece of meat and a little bit of cheese.Arround the paper –which seems to be a sheet of newspaper— he rolled an edible gum.
Daniel also explains to his students how to cook this tapa.In the kitchen of this School, with Daniel, is Fernando (the head of food and beverages in a hotel chain), who called several chefs from various hotels in the chain: Panama, Puerto Rico, United States ....., together, because he says that "Spain is a gastronomic reference in the world " and said to bring them to personally see Spanish products and to see how to cook here.Then, these chefs will cook the tapas which they learn here, in their own countries.Fernando says that Spanish tapas are known in cities like: Quebec (Canada), New York (USA), San José (Costa Rica) and two countries: Panamá and Colombia.
One of these chefs –who comes from a hotel in Panamá— says that “Coming to Spain was a dream” for him.
The Director of this International School of Gastronomy says that they sought students between 1.800 Schools in all the world; but there were 240 interested; and the International School chosed only 14 students, to compete in the International Competition of Tapas.Angel, the Director, says that 800 students have come to this School this year; and the number of students is growing. Some students pay around 6000 or 7000 dollars for 30 days, throughout Spain, in the best restaurants, in a VIP class; and there are people who pay 500 or 600 dollars a week -- but it is cheap, for what it offers --.
A group of these students come from “The Culinary Institute of America”, the best Cooking School in the world.It is in High Park, in New York (USA).They only went to Italy and to California; but, since 4 years ago, they also come to Spain.Here, they have cultural tours, gastronomic tours, workshops with Spanish chefs and, above all, they see are products.These students will get good grade in their Universities, cause of this special cooking course, in Spain.
One of the Spanish chefs, who collaborate with these School, says that, that fortunately Spain's image abroad has changed because before talking about our gastronomy as "Spanish gastronomy" (cooked food as in several countries of South America.) But now they see that Spain has a lot of quality gastronomy .
Kind regards,
Luis.
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