A few years ago, that CRINGE He colonized various areas of life. This English term, which refers to miserable situations or behavior, which is embarrassed by the language of generation Z and, above all, on social networks. Gastronomy, always permeable field for social affairs, was also achieved by the tsunami CRINGE At least this thinks that Julian Otro, Cook and part of the scientific and research team of the restaurant Mugaritz (Errentería, Gipuzkoa), which came up with the term Gas As a critical answer to countless videos of giant hamburgers covered with Oreo, sexual games with food or Influential faces The fact that they want to act as gastronomic critics, but – in addition to hiding this, there is an economic benefit behind their reviews – they can use adjectives only as cruel or incredible to describe every bite they give.
Last edition Kitchen dialogsThe gastronomic congress, in which experts from different disciplines are found to discuss and try to understand food as a cultural, social and political phenomenon, took place in March last year in the audience of the Basque Culinary Center. It was there that Julian Othero repaired the concept GasThe field as he says, everything was born as a counterattack. “It was a kind of intention of justice to what I saw, and was wrong. In this Calipes There are many things that are not only not only at the technical level, but also at the moral level. For a cook, this term is defined as an intellectual and artistic movement, which seeks to think about the post -capitalist decay around food and memes.
