The second edition is held until Friday at the Fundación para el Empleo and features chefs from Gran Canaria, Tenerife and Madrid
The great Atlantic sea bass, the use from the sea, the Ecocook project and the archeology of flavor star in the opening of the 2nd Training and Informative Conference of the Ingenio Cooking and Restoration School, which will be held until July 9 at the Foundation for Employment and end on Saturday, the 9th, with the reopening of the Oronado recreational area and pork tastings, an interpretive route around the Guayadeque ravine and performances with Canarian music.
The circular economy, local products and sustainable gastronomy are the topics that focus these training workshops aimed at students of the municipal Cooking School and restaurant and hospitality professionals on the island, who can follow the days in ' streaming' through the YouTube channel.
Mayor Ana Hernández and the Councilor for Employment and Local Development, Domingo González, inaugurated the conference in an event that was also attended by Cristina Roca, vice-rector of Culture and Sports of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and Dunia Rodríguez, director of the Canarian Employment Service, who encouraged the students to continue with their training and stressed the importance of obtaining a degree and also congratulated the City Council "for the good work and quality of its projects."
Ana Hernández, who highlighted the effort that the City Council is making to promote local gastronomy, “because it is an important employment niche and generator of economy for the municipality,” invited the students to “take advantage of this opportunity to train and learn from great teachers.” and kitchen teachers who come to this Foundation, because you are a generation of professionals sensitized to the importance of using local products, and at the same time the need to recover and promote Canarian agriculture and livestock, which needs all that support For their develpment".
For his part, Domingo González explained that the restoration generates in Villa de Ingenio "more than 1.000 direct jobs and there could be many more, and this forces the City Council to launch initiatives for its promotion, such as Gastro Ingenio."
Alberto González, from the Tenerife restaurant San Sebastián 57; Carlos Gómez, from the Canary Islands Technological Institute (ITC); Marcos Tavío, from the El Hierro restaurant Ocho Aborigen and K&Co (Madrid), the first restaurant certified by Ecocook Spain, have participated in this opening of the program of the 2nd Training and Informative Conference of the Ingenio Cooking and Restoration School, which continues tomorrow, Tuesday with Nereida García, from El Tapeo, Fegastrocan, Borja Marrero, from Muxgo; Pedro Hernández, from El Duende de Fuego and Willy Ramírez, from the Pícaro restaurant.
On Wednesday, the scheduled workshops begin, focused on traditional Ingenio soups, sustainable actions in the room, and dairy fermentation, among others.