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The protagonist of the new episode of the Stay to eat podcast, Lucía Freitas, considers that success is the happiness of contributing to giving visibility to a lot of women to whom no one told that their work was important. The Galician chef, who has just won one of the Comer Awards, is convinced that the networks of complicity that Amas da Terra is generating will become larger and larger.
Freitas tells how her restaurant A Tafona (Santiago de Compostela) took off when she thought it had hit rock bottom and explains that she, like many women, once she achieved recognition, felt the vital need to shift the focus to others to contribute to a just cause.
– Spicy and testosterone. There are studies that insist on relating spicy tolerance to testosterone, and whoever thinks that being “a real man” has to do with that resistance. In this report Rosa Molinero seeks the relationship between the challenge of being able to eat very spicy food and machismo.
– One of Romans. Manuel Ruiz de Luzuriaga is the author of this story that we reproduce in its entirety today and which was the winner of the 2023 Familia Torres Gastronomic Story Award organized by Comer. Although it is set in ancient Rome, it makes us reflect on issues that are still very much alive in gastronomy.
– Intuitive eating. This eating model emerged in the United States in the 90s as a reaction to such restrictive diets that led to a poor relationship with one’s own body, especially in women. Laura Conde reviews her ten key points here.
– Bagá. Jorge Guitián has visited Bagá, considered not only one of the most interesting restaurants in Andalusia but in the entire country. Pedro Sánchez’s proposal, as he tells us in this report, is original like few others, “capable of surprising at every step, of dazzling at times, with extreme simplicity.”
– Lamb with okra. With the intention of entering autumn, Ana Casanova proposes this lamb recipe that is prepared with okra, an African vegetable that reminds us of pepper and that adds an interesting touch to this tasty stew.
