Gastón Acurio
Gastón Acurio Jaramillo (born October 30, 1967 ) is a Peruvian chef and an important representative of Peruvian cuisine . He is the owner of international restaurants and the author of several cookbooks. He also has his own TV show in Peru and has worked on several magazines.
Life and vision
Gastón Acurio Jaramillo was born as the only son of Gastón Acurio Velarde and Jesúsa Jaramillo Razuri. He has four older sisters.
After dropping out of law school in Lima, he learned to cook in Europe at the Sol de Madrid hotel school in Spain and at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris . There he met his future wife Astrid Gutsche (* 1971), who came from Germany and grew up in France. They have two daughters: Ivalú and Kiara.
In 1994 he returned to Peru with her and they opened a French restaurant together, after all they had both learned the trade in Paris. But sourcing the right ingredients proved difficult and Acurio began to deal more intensively with the cuisine of his homeland. He played a key role in the development of the so-called Cocina Novoandina : He enriched international gourmet cuisine with typical Peruvian ingredients and vice versa, Peruvian dishes were reinterpreted by Astrid y Gastón and presented in an attractive way for gourmets. Today he is one of the most renowned chefs in Latin America .
His motivation: “I've had the best upbringing since I was born. I grew up with the best family, in the best house in the most beautiful part of town. I studied at the best university. So it's no wonder I have come a long way in my life. I had opportunities that few Peruvians get. Now it is my turn to give back to my homeland what I got through my work. "
His vision he shared with students at the Universidad del Pacífico in his opening speech in March 2006: "In 20 years there will a Peruvian Skewered Beef eatery next to a pizzeria in every city in the world anticucher give, next to a burger shop a Peruvian sandwich Bistro Sanguchería next a sushi bar a Peruvian fish restaurant Cevicher ía ... The Peru brand is to become a synonym for high gastronomy and to transfer its attractiveness to other Peruvian products ”. Acurio founded the Pachacútec Foundation in the poor suburb of Lima of the same name to enable less well-off young people to train as a cook in a cooking school.
In 2018 Gastón Acurio received the ECKART award for innovation. “Astrid Gutsche and Gastón Acurio are no ordinary restaurateurs: With the courage to stand up to haute cuisine with local ingredients and recipes, they are revolutionizing the culinary world of an entire country. Gastón Acurio focuses on the basic values of cooking: quality, creativity and regionality. The social commitment to developing one's own country into a brand with one's creations and thus wanting to lead to prosperity - that deserves the award for innovation ”, Eckart Witzigmann explains the decision of the jury.
Restaurants and franchises
With his wife Astrid, he has been running the Astrid & Gastón restaurant chain with origins in Miraflores , the richest district in Lima, since 1994 . There are now restaurants of the same name in Santiago de Chile , Bogotá , Quito , Caracas , Buenos Aires , Mexico City , Panamá , Madrid and London . The Cafe del Museo is located in the art history museum Rafael Larco Herrera in Lima. The café was designed by the architect Jordi Puig. The T'anta pastry shop and pralinerie opened in 2003. T'anta comes from Quechua and means bread . La Mar is a cevichería that first opened in Lima. Since 2008 there have been Peruvian restaurants under this name in the USA in San Francisco and New York as well as in Mexico City, São Paulo , Panamá and Bogotá. Madam Tusan is a Chifa , which means a restaurant with Chinese / Peruvian food, with locations in Lima and Santiago de Chile. Acurio has a total of 40 restaurants, which are distributed all over the world.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Nicole Anliker: The national pride on the plate. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 27, 2015, p. 7
- ↑ restaurant rankings: ECKART 2018 for innovation goes to Astrid Gutsche and Gastón Acurio
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Acurio, Gastón |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Acurio Jaramillo, Gastón (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Peruvian chef and a representative of the Cocina Novoandina |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 30, 1967 |