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The Girona Congress and Fair Center will host a new edition of the pioneering gastronomic event in Spain.
From next November 15 to 17, the Girona Gastronomic Forum 2015, maximum exponent of culinary innovation and creativity.
This is a new edition of the enogastronomic event, which was created in 1999 in the form of a gastronomic fair and congress, being the first meeting to address this highly topical issue in our days.
Whether due to the rise of the Mediterranean diet, the fame of our cooks, the importance of nutrition or the simple fact that it is fashionable, gastronomy fills pages every day of the national news and newspapers.
In this space for debate and training offered by the Gastronomic Forum, there will be an appointment prestigious culinary masters of the current scene like the Torres Brothers (Sergio and Javier), Fina Puigdevall, Quim Casellas, Carles Tejedor, Kiko Moya, Nandu Jubany and Xavier Pellicer among others, to offer and transmit to the visitor all their experience, especially the creativity that has given them their recognized fame.
Professionals who will attend the event will be able to find in it an unprecedented creative space where this year the figure of one of the Mediterranean ingredients with the greatest world fame will be praised, it is none other than the Rice, which will be present in different varieties and finishes, as well as their prestigious producers have deemed appropriate, within the restaurant space set up expressly for the occasion.
The best setting to house the latest in food and wine
Wine and gastronomy united by a nexus that goes far beyond the cultural, offering a program of activities that have made the space reserved for the highly-acclaimed Spanish wine, have its own specific room.
El Vino Forum will develop different training and exciting sessions, led by specialists Joan Gómez Pallarès, Carlos Orta and Pepe Ferrer.
From the hand of one of the “Roca”, Josep, that masterful will be revived “6 sensible wines” that eight years ago it occupied the media panorama of the event.
For the desserts we give way to Dulce Forum that come in this new edition with some masterclass and workshops prepared and presented by Raul Bernal, Fernando Sáez, Alejandra Hurtado, Rafa Delgado, Sergi Vela and the Sicilian teacher Corrado Assenza.
The rest of the activities of the gastronomic Forum 2015 program, It is completed by the exhibitions of Instagram photos that pay homage to the rise of the digital transformation of gastronomy, the #ESPAIARROS rice contest and the deliberation of the jury of the nominees for chef of the year 2015, who are eagerly looking for the finalists:
- Ana Merino, del Montbar (Barcelona)
- Diego Alías, from Ca l’Amador (Josa de Cadí)
- Pieter Truyts, from Brots (Poboleda)
- Vicenç Fajardo, of the Place (Madremanya)
- Víctor Gómez, from VidrA (Sant Feliu de Guíxols)