It's not Friday, we know, but it doesn't matter.
Because the main thing is that, after a little more than a year without being printed,
LA LUNA DE METRÓPOLI
- a reference magazine of leisure and culture that was published on Fridays with EL MUNDO - returns to paper with
a special issue
.
This Thursday, April 29, EL MUNDO
España Gastro
arrives
, a monograph dedicated to one of the main engines of our economy (and also of the magazine): gastronomy.
Especial Metrópoli España Gastro was
born with the aim of "supporting a
sector battered to the limits
by the health crisis", writes in the cover letter of the issue Ivan Martínez Cubells, director of the Lifestyle area of Unidad Editorial.
In the special, the gastronomy trends of 2021 are anticipated.
A sector of colossal dimensions, because "gastronomy is everything", with the permission of the great Ferran Adrià, father of the phrase.
With this huge horizon, METRÓPOLI has proposed to cover if not everything, then almost everything that is part of that
rich, productive, versatile and unique ecosystem
.
This issue does not only talk about good food and the best drink, but also about the different branches that contribute to making Spain a
world gastronomic power
.
Thus, through different reports the reality and the specific weight contributed by
sectors such
as oil,
liquid gold
of which we are the main producers;
the pig (the white and the Iberian, that noble breed that makes us unique);
the bovine;
fruits and vegetables (we are
the world's largest exporter
), rice ...
The interview with Dabiz Muñoz.
Other areas are analyzed from the individual, such as the visit to a company specialized in sheep meat that exports to more than 30 countries, including Saudi Arabia and Israel.
The special moves between the sectorial and the global, since it includes a report that
radiographs the state of the gastronomic nation
.
From the figures that testify to its importance in the national economy to those that reflect the impact of the pandemic.
From the haute cuisine restaurants that are part of
World Olympus
and how they got to it to the bar and the neighborhood shops.
From the super-premium products that are sweeping abroad to the humblest in the pantry.
Numbers, data and analysis
that reveal the state of the art.
The special includes the recovery of artisan techniques.
For more than three decades, METRÓPOLI has helped to
glimpse trends
, which is why they have a prominent presence in the monograph. For example, the
25 keys that will mark the hotel
and restaurant industry in the coming months
are advanced
. In addition, the fashions that have come to stay and those that are yet to come are collected: from delivery and sustainable restaurants to the boom in
healthy
cooking
and the return to
old and artisan techniques
, such as sourdough that has revolutionized bread making. , through the presence on the
supermarket shelves of delicatessen products
.
And more trends.
The recovery of
food markets as culinary spaces
is reflected in the selection of the most prominent informal restaurants that can be found in these municipal areas.
Or go hand in hand with the
most followed
influencers
.
Or the
essential
gastro
apps to keep up to date.
Rice Report
LA LUNA DE METRÓPOLI are also faces, which is why these special pages feature
proper names
that create the Spain brand inside and outside our country.
Like
Quique Dacosta
, just landed in the capital with a multipurpose (five restaurants at once!) At the brand new Mandarin Oriental Ritz Hotel in Madrid.
Or the media
Samantha Vallejo-Nájera
, who has just opened a hotel-restaurant in Pedraza, that medieval jewel of Segovia.
Rather than lean out, the unrepeatable
Dabiz Muñoz -
hit like many by the pandemic - throws himself bare-chested into an interview where, unavailable to discouragement, he talks about the present,
new projects and the "disruptive" future
of DiverXo that he has in mind.
Report on the pig sector.
Following the prescribing philosophy that has characterized the magazine for more than three decades,
wine and a tasting
with 11 ideal references to consume this summer
could not be missed
.
Neither are the
recipes
, such as those that explain the
success of Arzábal - a
tavern with which Iván Morales and Álvaro Castellanos revitalized the gastronomic axis of Retiro - and which have just been released in
book format
.
Separate chapter deserves the design of the number.
The publication's identity mark,
the covers
of Rodrigo Sánchez (Art Director of EL MUNDO and Unidad Editorial Revistas) are the
object of desire
of collectors and fans of visual journalism, and surely that of this monograph will also be.
This and others, because each section starts with a cover that, perfectly, could open the special.
Interview with Samantha Vallejo-Nájera.
"The idea was to
intoxicate
the inside of the magazine with the mythical covers of METRÓPOLI. As if they were
pseudo
covers
, each one of them could be taken to the cover, following the conceptual, artistic and material style, using real objects to make the cover", Sánchez explains.
We said it at the beginning, the
Special Metrópoli España Gastro
has "almost everything".
Including
a wink to readers
, who have participated in the search for the best dish in Spanish gastronomy.
The
metropoli.com
website
launched a survey to choose - from a shortlist of 15 specialties made by the writing team - the preferred preparation of the Spanish.
We do not like
spoliers
, but
we
warn
you, it is not the potato omelette, neither are the croquettes.
There we leave it.
So far this first special of LA LUNA DE METROPOLI, which we hope will be the advance of many others.
The sweet world also has a place in the special.
According to the criteria of The Trust Project
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