Jorge Monopoli, who defines himself as the promoter of the new cuisine of the End of the World, today recognizes that as a boy he was so shy that he only found his way of expressing himself when he did it through the kitchen. And when the 21st century arrived in Tierra del Fuego, he was dazzled by the biodiversity of a unique and, by the way, quite unknown province. His shyness was already history. Monopoli, in his land and with his famous spider crabs. (PR Feedback)
This chef born in Villa Regina, Río Negro, who studied Geology in La Plata and who had a great experience working in Seville in one of the restaurants of the Catalan Ferrán Adriá -the father of molecular cuisine-, this Thursday 25 was distinguished with the Prix Baron B – Edition Cuisine.
A contest that in its fourth edition also had as finalists the chef Alexandra Repetto El Alambique restaurant, in El Calafate, a project from Santa Cruz whose hallmark is the guanaco and its meat; Already Fernando Rivarolaa chef with a long career in San Telmo who a year ago went to Salta, more precisely to Cerro San Bernardo, with his restaurant El Baqueano.
Although the dish chosen by Monopoli -Crab del Fuego, carrot gazpacho, black garlic, ccachiyuyo (a kind of algae) and cassis paired with Barón B Extra Brut- was truly a delicacy, the project chosen by the jury made up of Mauroo Colagreco , the Colombian chef Leonor Espinosa, the Bariloche sommelier based in France Paz Levinson and the chef Martín Molteni, considered the integral project. A chain that ends in Kalma Restó, with its 24 tables, but that was born with the Fuegian fishermen, the organic producers of Quinta Pionera, in Río Grande, and the fine fruit pickers from the surroundings of Ushuaia.
“For this reason, Monopoli told Télam, this award is not mine, but many Fuegians who want to show the world the flavors and riches of our land.”
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