Image The cooks and pastry chefs from ACYRE Madrid and dancers from Amor de Dios highlight the legacy and female talent in the arts with the #Recet...

The cooks and pastry chefs from ACYRE Madrid and dancers from Amor de Dios highlight the legacy and female talent in the arts with the #RecetasconMdeMujeryArte campaign
2024/03/04

Marian Reguera, chef and owner of Taberna Verdejo; Naumi Uemura, chef and owner of Uemura restaurant; Carmen Capote, owner of 24 Onzas and Bettina Caputo, pastry chef at Restaurante Coque, in addition to the market stallholders and the dancers led by María Luisa Martín 'La Uchi' from the Amor de Dios school, honor women from history with their recipes and art at the Antón Martín Market.

The objective of the initiative is to make women visible in the gastronomic and artistic sector to remember where they came from and, above all, whose recipes are in our memory and, therefore, in our life.

 

The Association of Chefs and Pastry Chefs of Madrid (ACYRE Madrid), with the support of the General Directorate of Commerce and Hospitality of the Madrid City Council, within the framework of Women's Day values the legacy and recognition of female talent in the culinary and artistic sector with the #RecetasconMdeMujeryArte campaign.

Four cooks and pastry chefs from ACYRE Madrid, with market shopkeepers advising products and with the art of the dancers directed by María Luisa Martín 'La Uchi' from the Amor de Dios school, honor women in history with their recipes and art in the Market by Antón Martín (Calle Santa Isabel, 5. Madrid). The objective of the meeting is to make women visible in the gastronomic and artistic sector to remember where they came from and, above all, whose recipes are in our memory and, therefore, in our life. Remembering why gastronomy continues to be a sector of the arts where creativity is the order of the day and always seeks inspiration from legacy.
 
On Thursday, March 7 at the Antón Martín Market, Marian Reguera, chef and owner of Taberna Verdejo; Naumi Uemura, chef and owner of Uemura restaurant; Carmen Capote, owner of 24 Onzas, and Bettina Caputo, pastry chef at Restaurante Coquehan, will prepare several showcookings at 11:00 a.m. to encourage the rest of the women to upload their recipes to social networks to make visible the female legacy in gastronomy and art. The #RecetasconMdeMujery Arte meeting will also feature a tasting of the Madrid Wines DO guided by Eva Rodríguez from Bodegas Val Azul (Chinchón).
 

The role of women in the gastronomic world has never been easy. For this reason, we seek to ensure that they stop being in the background in gastronomy. "At ACYRE Madrid, 30% of our associates are women, but this is not the reality, since according to employment data, more than half of the active population in hospitality is female. Praise the female talents that already lead many kitchens where Those who succeed are mostly men. It is complicated, but it is our goal. We also defend those who decide not to get involved in certain rules of the game, since those paths are also those of their own success. There are many women in the world of gastronomy who their professional and vital project conflicts with the demands of their way of understanding gastronomy. They prefer to feed rather than show off; reconcile giving their lives to a single project (their restaurant) and have fair conditions for their team, which makes "That all of this takes your proposal along different paths and no one has to think that those paths are not those of success. In short, we claim that talent and effort are not heritage of any kind," says Eduardo Casquero, president of ACYRE. Madrid.

Let's go with the data. How can we explain that hospitality schools, which are increasingly more professional, have the same proportion of men and women and yet the names of well-known female chefs are anecdotal? There are 51% women in gastronomy , but not 51% of chefs are women. On the other hand, of the 272 starred restaurants in Spain, 21 are led by a woman. Currently, women dancers, singers or guitarists are raising the name of many other women who were left behind due to social customs. Remembering those teachers who could not fully demonstrate their worth, their art and their desire to go out and sing or dance to the world is another of the pillars of this action.

To break the chain of invisibility of talent, ACYRE Madrid is once again launching the #RecetasconMdeMujeryArte campaign on social networks and asking everyone to join in by sharing a recipe inspired by a memory of a woman, whether it is your mother, friend, grandmother. , a cook, an inspiring woman in history, inspired by the lyrics of an artist... The recipes, whether in video or with photos, must be accompanied with the hashtag #RecetasconMdeMujeryArte. Thus, during the week they will be shared on social networks to make this legacy visible to the rest: ours, yours and theirs.