CAMAGÜEY. - Knowledge and Flavor, of the Camagüey´s chef Frank Rodríguez Pino is among the awards Gourmand Best of last 25 years, and it will be taken to the Kitchen Book Fair of Paris in Louvre-Tuileries, representing to Cuba in the category C14 Latin America, from June 3 until June 7 of the present 2020.
The information was confirmed via e-mail by Edouard Cointreau, founder and president of Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.
This work of the Camagüey´s chef obtained the Latin-American Award in the international contest of Better Book of Kitchens of the World 2016, celebrated in Yantái, People's Republic of China.
In that opportunity the results were announced in that city where 26 thousand books of 205 countries of Asia, Africa, America and Europe were part of the contest, of which three were finalists, among them that of Frank.
In the edition of Yantái, 70 books of America aspired to the award and only two were finalists, but the Camagüey´s cook obtained the single award.
Now Know and Flavor was selected to be in the Parisian fair along with other Latin-American books as Living Markets, of the Colombian Maria Lia Neira Restrepo; Big book of the Peruvian dessert, of Sandra Plevisani; Our everlasting recipes, of the Uruguayan Hugo Soca; and Mix to the taste, of the Brazilian Ann Luiza Trajano.
When Frank received the news he explained for Adelante Digital: "This has been for me something very agreeably, because thus the cooks of the third world we will be representing our countries along with big culinary writers of developed nations”.
When from France this international selection is known, Frank has just concluded his fourth book, at present in negotiations with publishing houses: Eating is history, on the traditional meal of the Cuban coastal peoples, as Baracoa, Manzanillo, Casablanca, Manatí and Nuevitas.
It also includes at the end, as in other of his publications, culinary tastes of Cuban personalities, and in this occasion figures as Mariana Grajales, Gestrudis Gómez de Avellaneda, José Martí, Nicolás Guillén, Roberto Fernández Retamar and Barbarito Diez, as well as the North Americans Ernest Hemingway and George Washington.
- Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez