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The chef and director of the Chair of the Sweet Kitchen UCAM, Paco Torreblanca, presented to Joan Roca
The Temple of the Monastery of Jeronimos has welcomed this morning to great chefs, sommelier and alumni Gastronomy studies offered by the Catholic University of Murcia, among others, who have attended to listen to the inaugural lecture that has given the restaurant's chef Celler de Can Roca-Three star Michelin and considered one of the world's best-Joan Roca.
In addition, the act has also involved the chef and director of the Chair Kitchen Dulce UCAM, Paco Torreblanca, who presented to Rock, and who was accompanied by the president of the university, José Luis Mendoza, the director General Institute of Tourism, Enrique Ujaldón, the director of the International Chair in Mediterranean Gastronomy University, Antonio Marquerie, and the director of studies of Gastronomy, José María Cayuela.
Joan Roca value placed on the relationship between gastronomy, and university and knowledge.
"Chefs are grateful that enables dialogue, and while we are on the side of those institutions to put our work in the service of the university, and therefore for knowledge and build together a new generation more prepared cooks. gastronomy in this country is important, college and gives methodology, which is needed to advance, "said the chef.
Similarly, he added that "we have reached very high gastronomically no structures and no resources of this type, and now it's OK for arm ourselves, to give you strength, to give you rigor, and thus will be surely many more competitive than we have been before. "
His presence in the Murcia institution, the chef considered one of the best restaurants in the world, has congratulated the UCAM by the delivery of these studies, and has shown its support for initiatives how are you.
Professor and Director of the Chair of the Sweet Kitchen UCAM, Paco Torreblanca highlighted during his presentation figure Joan Roca for his "generosity, accessibility and willingness to collaborate," and said that "this is what makes it great the cook. "
Moreover, referring to the question of how to become a good professional kitchen, Torreblanca has indicated that the work is the key.
For his part, President of the UCAM, José Luis Mendoza has highlighted the innovative nature of these studies offered only two universities in Spain, and one of them UCAM, and said that "the degree is gastronomy is an initiative exceptional in our country, and through the UCAM we offer students a compendium of important strategies in this area, because it combines theoretical and practical teaching, has first-class facilities both in classrooms and laboratories of this campus, as the extraordinary infrastructure Tourism Qualification Center Murcia ".
Referring to the success of the Spanish cuisine, the director of the Institute of Tourism, Enrique Ujaldón, has praised as essential components that make this possible: a varied and powerful agricultural tradition deeply rooted family tradition, a tradition of home cooking , and the engine of tourism "that has caused many people to do kitchen they saw was a way of life", said Ujaldón.
"The Region of Murcia has a firm commitment to training in tourism, is a long-term bet, and you have to take that leap. Give hand and the Catholic University of Murcia has been a pleasure. We had to help this to be a success, all professionals with whom I have spoken have joined to support this project because it transcends the UCAM, the Regional Government, is a project all Murcia; getting Murcia gastronomy offer its tradition and its professionals, "said General Director of the Institute of Tourism.
Source: UCAM
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