Manuel Villanueva wins the XXIX National Award for Gastronomic Journalism with a piece on Galician delicacies in Madrid


The Director of Contents of Mediaset España has been unanimously awarded by the jury with the XXIX “Álvaro Cunqueiro” National Award for Gastronomic Journalism Águeda Cernadas, Alejandra Barco and Marta Castro received the prize for the most effective educational work devoted to gastronomy that has very variousBoth awards might be introduced on the Gastronomic Gala that might be broadcast by TVG from the Lalín Arena on February 10

The journalist and General Director of Mediaset Spain Content, Manuel Villanueva, has been unanimously awarded by the jury with the XXIX “Álvaro Cunqueiro” National Award for Gastronomic Journalism, promoted by the Lalín City 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 (Junta de Galicia) and acknowledged as crucial gastronomic award within the State.

Villanueva was chosen for his gastronomic journalistic work “Brief historical past of a Galician stew in Madrid” for being thought of “very literary, compiling phrases with background and type that style like stew, Cunqueiro’s 17 substances and the story of the grandfather nicely carried by a journalist that sculpts phrases that know good journalism, the commerce of the traditional vocation, of the pleasure that rests on the tables of gastric lust and is accompanied by product, friendship and historical past.Writing is digesting phrases and upsetting them within the order imposed by life , expertise, tradition and the flexibility to inform tales. This is Galicia”, in line with the jury.

“Brief historical past of a Galician stew in Madrid” was chosen from among the many 23 papers (19 introduced by professionals from the communication sector and 4 educational papers) that competed for this nomination in all classes (books, papers, publications or analysis on gastronomy, journalistic works broadcast on radio and tv, internet pages with content material devoted to gastronomy or graphic works revealed within the media).

This was agreed by the members of the jury of their deliberation that occurred this morning on the Lalín Town Hall. A jury, chaired by the mayor of Lalín, which was made up of distinguished journalists comparable to Martín Fernández Vizoso, Alberto Barciela, Xosé Manuel Merelles Remy (representing the Galician Tourism Agency), Belén Xestal, in addition to the dean of the Faculty of Communication Sciences of the USC, Ana Isabel Rodríguez Vázquez, and the earlier dean, Xosé Ramón Pousa.

Rodríguez Vázquez and Pousa have been accountable for evaluating and assessing the tutorial works introduced by college students of Journalism, Advertising and Audiovisual Communication from all around the nation. An award endowed with €1,000 received by the group made up of Águeda Cernadas, Alejandra Barco and Martha Castro.

The educational challenge “La semilla de la ciudad” was chosen as the most effective educational work for its intensive visible content material, plurality of sources, use of multimedia instruments used and the documentation work carried out to gather this data help.

In addition, the jury needed to offer a particular point out to the e book “The thousand and one recipes of the Palacete de Las Mendoza (María y Concha Mendoza Babiano)” by Ángel Arcay Barral for the beautiful style within the remedy of data and the accompaniment and framing historical past of the revealed recipes by which Ana Vega, Jorge Guitián, Ricardo Fernández and Ernesto Vázquez Rey collaborate.

Both awards might be introduced on Friday, February 10 on the Galician Gastronomy Gala, which might be broadcast on TVG from the Lalín Arena.