{"id":1481,"date":"2021-10-05T15:48:22","date_gmt":"2021-10-05T19:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2021-10-22T16:55:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T20:55:41","slug":"what-a-long-strange-trip-how-i-awoke-to-learn-my-cultural-identity-in-the-kitche","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/2021\/10\/05\/what-a-long-strange-trip-how-i-awoke-to-learn-my-cultural-identity-in-the-kitche\/","title":{"rendered":"What a Long Strange Trip:\u00a0 How I Awoke to Learn My Cultural Identity in the Kitche"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, October 6, 2021, there will be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.clarkeforum.org\">Clarke Forum<\/a>\u00a0<em>What a Long Strange Trip:\u00a0 How I Awoke to Learn My Cultural Identity in the Kitchen<\/em>with Chef, Consultant and Author <a href=\"http:\/\/fernandosaralegui.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"0\">Fernando Saralegui<\/a><strong>.<\/strong>\u00a0This program is sponsored by the\u00a0Clarke Forum for Contemporary Issues and co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish &amp; Portuguese Studies; the Center for Sustainability Education;\u00a0 the College Farm; the Food Studies Program; and Latin American, Latinx &amp; Caribbean Studies.<\/p>\n<p>Cuban born with Basque, Asturian and Galician roots, Saralegui will discuss how curiosity about Cuban and Basque cuisines led to the discovery of and journey towards his cultural self. He will also reflect on how this journey has afforded him a heightened sensitivity towards questions related to identity in both social and culinary contexts.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Biography<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Fernando Saralegui was born in Havana, Cuba and has been in the restaurant game his entire career. Saralegui received his B.A. in theatre set design from UC Berkeley where he also worked at Chez Panisse restaurant, his true alma mater. Since then, he\u2019s opened restaurants from Los Angeles to New York to Austin, including his own two New York Times\u2019s one-star restaurants, Alva and L-Ray.<\/p>\n<p>Gastronomic endeavors extend outside of the kitchen as well. Moving to Austin, TX in 2001, he became the executive director of the Austin Food Festival\u2019s Antecedent, the Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival.\u00a0 He wrote a cookbook, \u201cOur Latin Table,\u201d which garnered an invitation to cook \u201cCuban Thanksgiving\u201d at the James Beard House. Recently, he completed his second book, \u201cBest Eats Havana,\u201d about Cuba\u2019s entrepreneurial restaurant, bar, and night life scene, and cooked an encore engagement at the Beard House.<\/p>\n<p>Saralegui is currently developing curriculum for Farm 2 Business, a best practices executive training program, and continues restaurant consulting, writing culinary content and of course, cooking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday, October 6, 2021, there will be a Clarke Forum\u00a0What a Long Strange Trip:\u00a0 How I Awoke to Learn [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4094,"featured_media":1482,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","first-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4094"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/spanishandportuguese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}