Our gastronomic culture has taken off in recent years, and as a result of all the initiatives that the sector’s actors have carried out as a result of their culinary passion, it has led to organizations such as the Royal Spanish Academy of Gastronomy (RAEG), have promoted our Gastronomy is part of the assets of cultural interest.
La Culture Commission of the Congress of Deputies, has approved the law for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, which includes our gastronomy, on March 12.
Now there are no excuses for not including gastronomy as a subject in our educational system, gastronomic studies, nutrition and health are completely related and it would be very important that healthy eating habits were internalized from childhood.
Gastronomy is a set of knowledge, experiences, arts and crafts that allow you to eat healthy and pleasantly.
From the European instances, actions have been carried out for a long time that would help conserve and help spread the European Gastronomic Heritage, And about a year ago a directive was launched to member countries to promote the implementation of educational programs to combat an endemic disease of our current society that is obesity, these matters should be about:
- A theoretical and practical training on food.
- Dynamics and practical actions of nutrition and health.
- Healthy eating habits and respect for the environment.
La UNESCO endorses this type of conservation initiatives Intangible Cultural Heritage, And now we also have Spanish gastronomy as part of those uses, representations, expressions, knowledge and techniques that the communities recognize as theirs. and therefore Cultural heritage.
In this regard, the initiative of the Royal Spanish Academy of Gastronomy (RAEG) that has been endorsed by the Spanish Parliament is part of its work to raise the Mediterranean Diet as a pattern of healthy, balanced and pleasant nutrition.