The new edition of the Madrid Fusion International Summit is turning Madrid into the world’s food capital for three days in IFEMA MADRID (Pavilion 14). The participation of international speakers from all over the world, as well as renowned national and foreign chefs, year after year, ensures that this event goes from strength to strength. The 2022 edition will take place at the end of January and will focus on circular gastronomy, respect for the environment, the use of resources and the relationship between cuisine, the countryside, and the city.
The 2021 edition, which opted for a hybrid format combining in person and online events, attracted more than 15,000 visitors and 183 exhibitors over the three-day event. The last day was marked by the historic success of Javier Sanz and Juan Sahuquillo, of Cañitas Maite (Casas-Ibáñez, Albacete), who scored a culinary hat trick never achieved before in the previous 19 editions: The prize for Most Promising Chef , for best Joselito ham croquette, and first place in the National Preserves Contest .
At the end of January, the event will return for another year with the challenge of delivering a priceless meal prepared by five of the world’s top chefs that the American actor Robert de Niro has agreed to sample in exchange for promoting the congress. A foodie and also businessman who owns restaurants all over the world, including Spain, he will become the face of Madrid Fusion Foods of Spain 2022.
This year’s edition focuses on circular gastronomy, respect for the environment, the use of resources and the relationship between cuisine, the countryside, and the city, with Josep Roca and Italian chef Italian Diego Rossi demanding better working days, conditions, and working hours for his staff, in pursuit of job sustainability.
The programming includes Chefs Relief Training , a global training project for chefs led by the World Central Kitchen (WCK), a n NGO led by chef José Andrés together with Javier García to help in the event of crises or disasters caused by climate change.
It is a culinary meeting place that has been taking place every January since 2002 in the Municipal Congress Center where each year a different country is invited to be the special gastronomic guest of honor.
The event is divided into two Congresses that will deal with the possible future course of haute cuisine: environment, energy efficiency, human relations, applied psychology, social integration, uberisation, new technologies, and recycling. Chefs from all over the world will participate in technical demonstrations, training workshops, competitions, auctions and prizes.
Madrid Fusión initiative has been awarded numerous prizes like the Prize for Social and Cultural Work Related to Gastronomy awarded by the Dionisio Duque Foundation in 2008; the 3rd Madrid Prize for Gastronomy awarded by Madrid’s Academy for Gastronomy in 2007 and the Foods of Spain Prize, Best Promotional Action in any Other Country of the World awarded by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fishing and Food in 2015.
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