A lively chat at the Casa del Alba was the outcome of the meeting in Havana between Ecuador’s “Desde la Mirada” and the publishing team of the Arte por Excelencias magazine, within the framework of the activities to mark the 20th anniversary of the Iberian-American Cultural Celebration, this time around slated for October 24-30 in the city of Holguin, in eastern Cuba.
José Carlos de Santiago, CEO of the Excelencias Group, was invested as Knight of the Santiago Pathways Order by the vice president of the Order, Alejandro Rubin, during an extraordinary meeting held at San Francisco Church, Santiago del Estero city, where 11 new members were knighted as well.
The AEEPP Award gala ceremony (Asociación Española de Escritores de Prensa Periódica) was held at the Real Casa de Correos in Madrid on September 30. The function was attended by Madrid Community President D. Ignacio González. In his keynote speech, Mr. Gonzalez praised the hard work, dedication and painstaking efforts that Spanish publishers are making in such tough and difficult times as these. The recipients of this year’s awards are publishers with over fifteen years of experience in the publishing business.
The seminar, this time entitled “One Hundred Years of History in Panamanian Gastronomy”, organized by the Excelencias Group’s Excelencias Gourmet Magazine with the collaboration of Panama’s Gastronomic Club and supported by Nestlé, targets executives and managers of companies linked to the tourism industry.
On behalf of the World Association of Chef Societies (WACS), international chef Claudio Ferrer handed a distinction to Jose Carlos de Santiago, the Excelencias Group’s CEO and ambassador of the Iberian-American Gastronomy Academy, for his contribution to a better management and development of Cuba’s culinary art.
The keys to be taken into account for alimentary innocuousness were revealed on Wednesday by Doctor Ivania Rodríguez, from the Food Industry’s Research Institute, during the lecture entitled Cold Chain and Food Quality.