Cuba train young Chefs

HAVANA, Apr 13 (PL) Cuban tourism authorities are immerse in plans of formation of young chefs in order to guarantee the next generation of this specialty, so necessary in the recreation industry.

That strategy seems today supported in several meetings, as one organized in Old Havana starting today to 16 April in hotel facilities, organized by Habaguanex company, with business in this zone.

The idea announced by spokespersons of that firm, pretends the gourmet development through cuisine specialists to give a big boost to the Fourth Scientific Student event under the slogan Entrepreneuring with Flavor.

That event, they officially said, has a theoretical part located in the Hotel Ambos Mundos, facility intimately related to the presence in Cuba of U.S. Nobel laureate Ernest Hemingway.

In that meeting will participate sommeliers, barmen, enologists, chefs and specialists in food security.

The coordinator of the Program of Formation of Entrepreneurial Youths, Angel Aguilera (organizer of the event), stressed that the meeting will also have scenarios in the Natural History Museum, Library Ruben Martinez Villena and the private restaurant La Moneda Cubana (Cuban Coin).

Lectures on rescue of Havana cuisine, international and national cocktail history, good table habits, sustainable cooking and gastronomical services.

Those events will be attended by Chef Charo Val of Spain, who recently obtained the Quality Award in Beijing, China and will present the paper Sustainable Cooking, vanguard, tradition and product.

Organized by the Program of Young Entrepreneurs Training, the meeting is sponsored by several state entities, the Office of the City Historian, Habaguanex, Federation of Culinary Associations of Cuba, Havana Club International S.A. and the Barmen Association of Cuba.