{"id":207889,"date":"2019-10-20T19:29:01","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T23:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=207889"},"modified":"2019-10-20T19:29:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T23:29:01","slug":"cuban-cuisine-declared-national-cultural-heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/culture\/cuban-cuisine-declared-national-cultural-heritage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cuban cuisine declared national Cultural Heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cuban cuisine was declared this Friday a national Cultural Heritage on the closing day of the <\/span>7th International Culinary Festival <\/span><\/a>held at the Havana Convention Center.<\/span><\/p>\n

The decision by the National Heritage Council of Cuba (CNPC) was based on the fact that cuisine is “part of the national identity” and is a “metaphor for what the island represents as an ethnic conglomerate,” Prensa Latina (PL) <\/em><\/span>reported.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The accreditation was given to <\/span>chef Eddy Fern\u00e1ndez<\/span><\/a>, president of the Culinary Federation of Cuba, by Gladys Collazo, president of the CNPC, who stressed that Cuban cuisine “is the result of the transculturation process that took place in the country” and is “a cultural expression that includes the knowledge and practices transmitted from one generation to another, associated with traditional processes of agricultural, livestock and fisheries, food processing techniques and procedures, including beverages and meals, and the act of consuming food and its socialization spaces.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Collazo stressed that “the ways of preparing and consuming food, the variety of ingredients and dishes, the related social relations and practices that were established in the course of the processes that gave rise to the Cuban nationality, also resulted in a qualitatively new cuisine, different from all its original sources,” according to PL<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n