Platocanario.es Kevin Díaz Perdomo

The mirror of the Saborea Lanzarote Food and Wine Festival reflected in Kevin Díaz Perdomo

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The young game leader of El Serbal Santander (*Michelin) He cultivated his passion for cooking at the Lanzarote event

He Saborea Lanzarote Enogastronomic Festival, which starts its tenth edition this Saturday, 25 of November, in The Town of Teguise (Lanzarote), stands out for multiple features.

One of the most important, apparently, can't be seen. It is the one through which the Lanzarote event inoculates the healthy poison in adolescents who dream of reaching the top.

Something like this happened a few years ago to Kevin Diaz Perdomo (24). I was walking through the halls of the event, among the exhibitors, I tried the tastings but, above all, entered the classrooms prepared for the demonstrations. There he learned about the knowledge that chefs with Michelin Stars or Sol Repsol shared..

But there is more: this teenager, student of a cooking cycle at the time, I did not hesitate to participate in amateur competitions (lentils, tuna, salad…) that are organized in the Food and Wine Festival.

For me, engage in Savor It was a boom on a personal and professional level because, although it was an amateur contest, I took it quite seriously“, point from Santander, where he is head of the game El Sebral (* Michelin). the first time “I just passed by”. The second “I came second”. Y to the third…”I won. I have always believed that with effort we achieve everything we set our minds to., but I take away the most important thing Savor: learning”.

Kevin's takeoff
The young man Kevin He has never doubted his potential. And soon he began to develop it. Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, Galicia y, currently, Santander. Y, nonetheless, the contests: Madrid Fusion, Gastronomy San Sebastian…”adding experiences”, as he often repeats.
The passage through Food and Wine Festival Taste Lanzarote It has been fundamental in his career, as he himself acknowledges. And in the future, who knows…“Of course I would like to give a presentation at the Classroom of Taste! -the main event, where suns and stars come- but for now I see myself going far in Canarian cuisine. I wake up every day wanting to be better”
This ambition, however, manage it with “modesty, enjoying the road, of the little things”. So, when the big ones arrive, “you enjoy them twice as much”.
It is the advice he gives to young people since El Serbal Santander where he is still happy doing what he likes most: cook.
Platocanario.es Kevin, winner of the Salad Contest 2019 at the Saborea Lanzarote Wine and Gastronomic Festival. The third time was the charm

“the first time, I just passed by. The second, I came second. And the third, well I won”. in the photo, receiving the award for best salad 2019 in it Taste Lanzarote, Kevin I barely had 20 years. And he had already had a few tinkering in it Festival and dreaming of arriving one day

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