Asturias

Speaker

Blanca Menéndez

"Guisandera" and chef at Casa Lula (Tineo, Asturias, Spain)

She claims categorically that "potes, frying pans and ovens are my work, my vocation and my destiny".

She was born in Casa Lula, and grew up in kitchens along with her grandmother and mother. But, although she had always been fond of cooking, she never imagined she would take it up professionally. 

She went to study catering and tourism in Barcelona, and after a number of stints at hotels in the UK and Pola de Somiedo, she developed an increasing interest in her roots. And so she decided to go back to Casa Lula and learn all the family's cookery secrets, and also about floor service, and finally in 2004 she became a member of the Asturias "stewmistresses" club.

Blanca Menéndez

Partners

PUBLIC BODIES

Asturias Cocina Paisaje Paraíso Natural

SPONSORS

Fagor Profesional Reale Seguros

CONTRIBUTORS

Ayuntamiento de Langreo Coalla Ecomuseo Minero Valle de Samuño Garcia Rodriguez Hermanos Le Nouveau Chef Makro Sobrescobiu