Pese a laacute food crisis in Cuba, there was no shortage of resources for one of the events of the ExpoSur 2023 International Fair, in Cienfuegos: the baking of agiant paella, with the main ingredients that the dish contains.
The paella, baptized with the name Epicien andmade with seafood, other meats, rice and natural seasonings, was cooked in pool areas of the Pasacaballo hotel by several chefs from the Cuban Culinary Association branch in the province.
Eduardo Chinea, president of that association, assured that the dish was made “with all the resources that have been given to us” and listed its main ingredients:“lobster, shrimp, snapper, pork, chicken, crab, clam…”, almost all of them luxury for an ordinary Cuban.
According to a video fragment posted by the stationRadio City of the Sea, the chef invited those present at the opening day of the business exchange to taste the“fabulous paella”, with ingredients provided by the Industrial Fishing Company of Cienfuegos.
“You will be, of course, the tasters,” he said, addressing foreign and Cuban businessmen, and national and provincial leaders attending the event.
Idania Morejón, director of the Fishing Industry, assured that, “after the season of shrimp capture and the collection of accompanying fauna in the seas of the southern coast, most of the ingredients came from that stage that contributed profits to the economy. national".
According to the radio station, the participants in the fair tasted the “typical dish of Cienfuegos”, but with “some variation in its current recipe” that the report did not explain.
Just two months ago, a government representative stated on an official television program thatThe lack of fish in the country's stores is due to the lack of fish in Cuban waters.
“Although we are a country that is surrounded by the sea,our waters do not have the levels of fish "what we need to cover the demand of the population, to satisfy this growing demand," the Vice Minister of the Food Industry assured without hesitation,Mydalis Orange White.
This Thursday, the I ExpoSur International Fair was inaugurated, which will run until Sunday with the participation of businessmen from 10 countries.
The fair It has more than 30 square meters for foreign exhibitors, “who share spaces with actors from the socialist state company, MSMEs, self-employed workers and local development projects,” indicated thenewspaperSeptember 5.
Events like this, where they show offprohibitive foods for Cubans, in the middle of theprolonged economic crisis of the country, are frequently organized by institutions of the Cuban regime, such as the Ministry of Tourism.
Just three days after the closing of the Cienfuegos business fair, aculinary festival in Matanzas.
The preparations for theXIII edition of the Varadero Gourmet International Festival, which will be held from September 20 to 23 at the Plaza América Convention Center.
Despite the deep food crisis in the country and the inflation that makes its acquisition more expensive or impossible for citizens, the Ministry of Tourism andLisa Cuesta, wife of the rulerMiguel Diaz-Canel, promote an event that they claim is dedicated to the “safeguarding of Cuban Creole food.”
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