Águeda Cernadas, Alejandra Barco and Marta Castro have won the award for the best academic work dedicated to gastronomy, with a wide range of documentation and information.
Both awards will be presented at the Gastronomy Gala, which will be broadcast by TVG from the Lalín Arena on 10 February.
The journalist Manuel Villanueva was unanimously awarded by the jury with the XXIX "Álvaro Cunqueiro" National Gastronomic Journalism Award, promoted by the Lalín Town Council in collaboration with the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the University of Santiago de Compostela, the Galician gastronomic associations and the Galician Tourism Agency (Xunta de Galicia) and recognised as the most important gastronomic award in Spain. Villanueva was chosen for his gastronomic journalistic work "Breve historia de un cocido gallego en Madrid" (Brief history of a Galician stew in Madrid) because it is considered very literary, gathering words with substance and form that taste of stew, of Cunqueiro's 17 ingredients and of a grandfather's tale well brought by a journalist who sculpts words that taste of good journalism, of the trade of ancient vocation, of the pleasure that lies on the tables of gastric lust and is accompanied by product, friendship and history. Writing is digesting words and tasting them with the order imposed by life, experience, culture and the desire to tell. That is Galicia", according to the jury.
"Breve historia de un cocido gallego en Madrid" was chosen from among the 23 works (19 submitted by professionals from the communication sector and 4 academic works) that competed for this candidacy in all categories (books, works, publications or research on gastronomy, journalistic works broadcast on radio and television, websites with content dedicated to gastronomy or graphic works published in the media).
This was agreed by the members of the jury in their deliberation which took place this morning in the Town Hall of Lalín. The jury, chaired by the mayor of Lalín, was made up of prominent journalists such as Martín Fernández Vizoso, Alberto Barciela, Xosé Manuel Merelles Remy (representing the Galician Tourism Agency), Belén Xestal, as well as the dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the USC, Ana Isabel Rodríguez Vázquez, and the former dean, Xosé Ramón Pousa.
Rodríguez Vázquez and Pousa were in charge of evaluating and assessing the academic works presented by students of Journalism, Advertising and Audiovisual Communication from all over the country, an award endowed with €1,000 which was won by the group formed by Águeda Cernadas, Alejandra Barco and Marta Castro.
The academic project "The seed of the city" was chosen as the best academic work for its broad visual content, plurality of sources, use of multimedia tools used and the documentation work carried out to undertake this informative support.
The jury also awarded a special mention to the book "Las mil y una recetas del Palacete de Las Mendoza (María y Concha Mendoza Babiano)" by Ángel Arcay Barral for the exquisite taste in the treatment of the information and the accompaniment and historical framing of the recipes. Ana Vega, Jorge Guitián, Ricardo Fernández and Ernesto Vázquez Rey collaborated in the publication.
Both prizes will be awarded on Friday 10 February at the Galician Gastronomy Gala, which will be broadcast by TVG from the Lalín Arena.
