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Yanet Acosta claims the ‘Gastro Noir’ as a Mediterranean genre "more alive than ever" in which "gastronomy is a literary tool"
Yanet Acosta, novelist and literary advisor of the gender festival black tenerife noir, claims the black gastro As a Mediterranean genre "more alive than ever" in which "gastronomy works as a literary tool". Acosta, Professor at the Rey Juan Carlos University of Madrid, It is the organizer of the activity Gastro-black: Novel taste, carried out the past 29 March, And that served to publicize three black novels with the accompaniment of dishes from the Guannabí restaurant, of chef Lucas Gamonal, and of wines from the Altos de Trevejos winery.
The section Gastro-black: Novel taste means the consolidation of the gastronomic activities of Tenerife Noir and, in this edition, He announced the novels The golden nose: Madame Marchand's first case (Wine stories, 2024), Cris Silva; Café cut (Pull, 2024), by José Francisco Alonso, y The butterflies shelter (Destination, 2022), of Xabier Gutiérrez. The presentation consisted of a table-degustration in which the three authors chatted, moderated by Acosta.
About gender black gastro, Acosta states that it is born from “that differentiation that we have always had in the Black Mediterranean novel, With Manuel Vázquez Montalbán and the French authors, And some authors and authors have led it to convert our novels into gastronomic scenarios ”. This trend "began in 2011, When I published the chef myself has died, somehow honoring Montalbán, although not following exactly its steps, And from that moment to the present it has worked very well ”.
“As time has passed - the writer adds - different authors have been incorporated, But not with a timely novel, but with sagas of novels. In all cases gastronomy works as a literary tool; It is not an ornament, It is an intention ". He black gastro In Spain “it is more alive than ever because there is a variety of writers and writers; And not only in Spain, but also in Latin America ".
The novels and authors
In The golden nose: Madame Marchand's first case, Cris Silva introduces us to Julia Petit, Ritz sommelier and responsible for serving the twenty best vintages of Dom Pérignon during a tasting held at the hotel. The death of one of the guests and the disappearance of one of the oldest harvest bottles of the prestigious champagne, reputed wines collector. Cris Silva is a sommelier and writer, Although she defines as an account. Addicted to reading mystery novels and friendly crimes, I miss fiction books in which the wine was the protagonist and the women made it, chose it and enjoyed it, So he launched them.
Corted coffee It begins with the appearance of a penis curtured in a tourist apartment in the Old Casco in Bilbao. Ertzaintza and Judge Anne Campuzano must investigate the case and, for it, This will have the help of your friend, Professor Loizaga, that not only must impeify for your sentimental partner, but also overcome the unresolved sexual attraction that exists between them. The novel, Very fun and marked by the most acute irony, It is the work of José Francisco Alonso, Bachelor of Philosophy and Education Sciences from the University of Deusto. Alonso works, Same as its protagonist -, as a philosophy professor, In this case in the city of Valladolid.
The butterflies shelter dive in the mysteries that wrap the Baños de Panticosa hotel, In the Aragonese Pyrenees, During one of the worst snowstorms that remembers the region. Everything is unleashed when a private detective arrives to investigate a disappearance, And all hotel employees seem to hide a secret. Xabier Gutiérrez is a cook, Psychologist and writer. He directed the Arzak restaurant innovation department in San Sebastián for more than thirty years. He is the author of twenty -two works, Among them fourteen kitchen books and five essays on culinary aesthetics, and has been awarded the National Gastronomy Award 2005 And with the Best World Cookbook Award the years 2006, 2008 y 2023. He is also the author of the original gender tetralogy Noir Gastronomico composed of The aroma of crime (2015), The Bouquet of Fear (2016), Citric flavor (2017) y In the smoke (2019).
Yanet Acosta is the author of the novels Kill the father, The chef is dead y There is no good job and of the Illustrated Stories Book Nights without sex. She is a journalistic writing and photojournalism professor at Rey Juan Carlos University; besides, directs the master's degree and gastronomic journalism of The Foodie Studies. The culture has received the award is feminine 2020 to the best historical-literary proposal and the first national prize Álvaro Cunqueiro of gastronomic journalism 2021.