Jaume Fàbrega
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Jaume Fàbrega is a Catalan gastronomy writer, journalist, historian and professor at some universities. He has written more than fifty gastronomy and cooking books, he has won five times the Gourmand World Cookbook Award and he has made Ferran Adrià
known over the world as a Catalan chef. He takes part of some international cultural associations as for example AICA and FIJET.
He has worked as journalist for all the most important journals in Catalonia and Spain, as La Vanguardia
, Avui, El Temps, El Món, El Punt, Diari de Girona, etc. and in radio channels as Catalunya Ràdio
. Also in cultural or gastronomic publications over the world, as la Gazeta del Arte, Batik, Mesa y más, Descobrir cuina, etc.
He is a very prolific writer who has written some gastronomy encyclopaedic books which have been translated in English and other languages. Some of them are La cuina. Gastronomia tradicional sana, La cuina catalana, etc. He has redacted, for example, El Gran Llibre de la Cuina Catalana for Josep Lladonosa
or El Bulli, El sabor del Mediterráneo for Ferran Adrià
.
Ferran Adrià
Ferran Adrià i Acosta is a Catalan chef born on May 14, 1962 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. He was the head chef of the El Bulli restaurant in Roses on the Costa Brava, and is considered one of the best chefs in the world.-Career:...
known over the world as a Catalan chef. He takes part of some international cultural associations as for example AICA and FIJET.
He has worked as journalist for all the most important journals in Catalonia and Spain, as La Vanguardia
La Vanguardia
La Vanguardia is Catalonia's leading daily newspaper as well as the fourth best-selling in Spain. It has its headquarters in Barcelona, Catalonia's largest city....
, Avui, El Temps, El Món, El Punt, Diari de Girona, etc. and in radio channels as Catalunya Ràdio
Catalunya Ràdio
Catalunya Ràdio is Catalonia's public radio network. It's part of Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals, owned by the Generalitat de Catalunya...
. Also in cultural or gastronomic publications over the world, as la Gazeta del Arte, Batik, Mesa y más, Descobrir cuina, etc.
He is a very prolific writer who has written some gastronomy encyclopaedic books which have been translated in English and other languages. Some of them are La cuina. Gastronomia tradicional sana, La cuina catalana, etc. He has redacted, for example, El Gran Llibre de la Cuina Catalana for Josep Lladonosa
Josep Lladonosa i Giró
Josep Lladonosa i Giró is a Catalan chef and food-writer. He has been chef of the charming and celebre restaurant Set Portes in Barcelone for fifty years...
or El Bulli, El sabor del Mediterráneo for Ferran Adrià
Ferran Adrià
Ferran Adrià i Acosta is a Catalan chef born on May 14, 1962 in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat. He was the head chef of the El Bulli restaurant in Roses on the Costa Brava, and is considered one of the best chefs in the world.-Career:...
.
Prices and honneurs
- Price Robert de Nola 1981, with Jean-François Revel
- Price d'Honor Chaîne des Rôtisseurs 1987
- Price Jaume Ciurana 1987 of journalism
- Price Raïm d'Argent 1991 with Juan Maria Arzak
- Premi Nacional d'Assaig of AndorraAndorraAndorra , officially the Principality of Andorra , also called the Principality of the Valleys of Andorra, , is a small landlocked country in southwestern Europe, located in the eastern Pyrenees mountains and bordered by Spain and France. It is the sixth smallest nation in Europe having an area of...
1996 and 2007 - Rehearse price Josep Vallverdú 1996
- Rehearse price Rovira i Virgili 1999
- Rehearse price C. Sarthou 2007
- His books have been selected to be exposed in the Olimpic International Exposition of Cooking Books of Beijin (China) 2007
- He is the only person in the world who has won five times a Gourmand World Cookbook Awards
- He is director of Pèl & Ploma, a gastronomic collection of "La Magrana" editions