The greater variety of raw materials in gastronomic markets, the increase of training in cooking schools, and the entrepreneurial spirit of the new chefs are all to blame for this qualitative leap.
The author's kitchen, or new kitchen, participates in this growth, giving that touch that is needed, as a cherry on the varied and plural cake that is the Asturian cuisine as a whole; born first of its valleys and mountains, of fishing, hunting, livestock and a very fertile orchard that caters to all equally. Both those who pretend to make their cuisine a laboratory of bold ideas, in monoporciones and modified textures, as those who have been chefs before the friar, giving each day a new touch to their Experienced kitchen, able to surprise the most pretentious of the gourmets with a solid authorship that, far from aspiring to the extreme novelty, has been amply proven with the passage of time.
Both concepts of cooks integrate the Kitchen of Author in the Principality.
The fine details, professionalism and precision in the techniques are its main qualities, maintaining in all cases a certain theory of the classic, praising the fundamental pillars of regional gastronomy.
Wherever we are, we always ask the same Where can we eat well?, and the truth is that restaurants proliferate where you eat to spread with a recital of good taste in all aspects. Cozy, subtle places with new Asturian cuisine with menus in continuous renewal: textured tortillas, chorizo brick with cider gel, Asturian pot teaspoon or glass of crab; seemingly daring proposals but always with the guarantee of local products; good wine list and correct service in most cases. Indispensable places if you want to know what is "cooked" in Asturias. With evolved recipes from the original: bean stew cream with Iberian shavings, cod with oricio sauce accompanied by black risotto, asparagus stuffed with seafood, creamy rice with lobster, tortilla with black pudding and apple scramble, mullet flaked in minty juice, strips of red meat with Iberian ham and gamonéu ... and authentic pastry jewelry in charge of the chefs, all sorts of homemade cakes, and to give just one example of culinary poetry: chocolate frixuelos filled with rice pudding and hazelnut mousse.
Restaurants for gourmets abound in an autonomous community that has a solid base of establishments, many of them are committed to quality in large salons prepared for banquets, in small and exclusive rooms, in modern dining rooms for an audience that is looking for new environments, and many places that maintain their usual headquarters, without too many artifices, because the excellence of their kitchen is sufficient design.
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No less important is the development of an autochthonous kitchen in its kitchens but extravagant in their proposals, with foreign products such as kangaroo sirloin or grilled ostrich. Asturias is not out of the general trend of the country either: the establishment of restaurants that propose recipes from the five continents, with the well-known boom of the Asian proposals, mainly in the great Asturian cities.
Text: © Ramón Molleda for asturias.com
