The C\u00edrculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid has awarded its Gold Medal to Andoni Luis Aduriz, making him the first chef in the institution’s history to receive this distinction. A recognition previously granted to philosophers such as Baudrillard and \u017di\u017eek, writers like Galeano, Gamoneda and Kallifatides, and graphic artists such as Andr\u00e9s R\u00e1bago. With this gesture, the C\u00edrculo celebrates a career that has placed gastronomy on the same level as artistic creation, intellectual reflection and cultural production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Medal distinguishes personalities who have made an extraordinary contribution to culture, the arts and thought. In Aduriz’s case, the recognition encompasses both his avant-garde cooking and his work as a writer, theorist and communicator \u2014 from his sociological essay No s\u00e9 y otras certezas<\/em> to collaborations with references such as Harold McGee and Alex Atala, through a body of writing that has spent years building bridges between cooking and knowledge.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Trained alongside Ferran Adri\u00e0 at El Bulli and with fourteen consecutive years among the ten best restaurants in the world according to The World’s 50 Best Restaurants<\/em>, Mugaritz is today far more than a restaurant: it is a space where cooking and thinking are one and the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This recognition comes at a significant moment for gastronomy as a cultural discipline, shortly after the French Academy of Fine Arts welcomed Guy Savoy as its first chef. Two gestures pointing in the same direction: cooking, when it is thought through and lived with this depth, belongs to art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The C\u00edrculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid has awarded its Gold Medal to Andoni Luis Aduriz, making him the first chef in the institution’s history to receive this distinction. A recognition previously granted to philosophers such as Baudrillard and \u017di\u017eek, writers like Galeano, Gamoneda and Kallifatides, and graphic artists such as Andr\u00e9s R\u00e1bago. With this gesture, the C\u00edrculo celebrates a career that has placed gastronomy on the same level as artistic creation, intellectual reflection and cultural production. The Medal distinguishes personalities who have made an extraordinary contribution to culture, the arts and thought. In Aduriz’s case, the recognition encompasses both …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sin-categorizar"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n