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Miguel Ángel Lurueña, one of the most reputable scientific communicators about food, tells us some of the changes that can be seen in our diet. He does so in the new chapter of the Stay to Eat podcast, where he assures that it will be circumstances, resource scarcity or climate change, and not a global Machiavellian plot, that will modify some of our eating habits.
Lurueña reflects on the influence of social networks in making new food tribes visible and the mental health problems that can be caused by the obsession with a healthy, unprocessed diet or the determination to gain muscle and eat large amounts of meat. The expert also reviews the worst crises that this country experienced, such as that of rapeseed oil, when we were in “the prehistory of food security.”
– This is how young people experience Ramadan, which ended this week. Some of them recognize that they are not year-round practitioners, but they do follow to the letter the fourth pillar of their religion in the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. Judit Guerrero has spoken with young Muslims who live in Spain and who have told her what it represents for them and how they experience it.
– A bee in the kitchen. This is the title of the new opinion article published this week by the field veterinarian and writer María Sánchez, which we invite you to savor, while at the same time we take the opportunity to encourage you to read her new book, the collection of poems Fuego la sed (La Bella Varsovia ), as inspiring as everything he tells us.
– Paella according to Quique Dacosta. We review some issues, such as the variety of rice we choose and the quantity, the cooking point and other factors that according to Quique Dacosta will completely determine the result of the paella. Iker Morán has asked him the keys to success and has also talked with him about the new range of rice dishes ready to finish at home that the chef of the three-star restaurant in Dénia has just launched.
– Fino Bar. Good products and wines made with minimal intervention are important at Fino Bar, this place in Gràcia that Hada Macià has visited and where, she tells us, the lack of cuisine has sharpened the ingenuity of the friends who run it and where everything happens in a bar that is very alive.
– Yogurt cake with chocolate chips. If there is a sweet recipe that is associated with simplicity and that is usually considered suitable for everyone – even the most inexperienced cooks – it is the yogi cake. Ana Casanova teaches us how to prepare it following this recipe in which she incorporates some chocolate chips.
