Every year around this time the chef José Gordón, from El Capricho, a restaurant in the province of León that is considered the one that offers the best meat in the world, celebrates gastronomic days dedicated to other cultures. On this occasion, in its 20th edition, the guest country of these conferences, which opened this Monday, is Brazil. A country that comes hand in hand with the prestigious Alberto Landgraf concert, standard bearer of Brazilian haute cuisine.
Gastronomic meetings
The tasting menu will be available to the public until March 12. Always around ox meat, of which El Capricho is a sanctuary. Everything fused with Brazilian flavors. For the menu, Landgraf, chef of the Oteque restaurant in Rio de Janeiro, with two Michelin stars and ranked 20th on the list of the 50 Best Restaurants of Latam.
Landgraf has prepared the grilled picaña, with açal sauce, bean vinaigrette and cassava forofa with egg and banana. “Like the one we do at the barbecue joints in Brazil on Sundays to watch football,” he comments to Gastronomic Information. Other dishes on the menu, for which Gordón and Diego Zarate had the collaboration of Landgraf, are a picaña tartare with Carioca dressing on crispy yuka. Also beef shank coxinha with mango mayonnaise or queijo bread stuffed with beef blood sausage with fried banana and guava sauce.
The excellent meat at the El Capricho restaurant
Landgraf highlights that the meat that El Capricho offers is “very tender. In Brazil, he points out, we do not have as much quality meat as José has here. The chef highlights that Gordon “treats the oxen like his children.”
In Jiménez de Jamuz, a town of 800 inhabitants in León, Gordon built “El Capricho” in one of the warehouses excavated underground. Very close by he has two farms with a total of 400 oxen on a total of 140 hectares. All this in a beautiful and quiet place, without roads or noise. Pioneer in Spain, in the 90s, of the appropriate techniques for the maturation of ox. Gordon follows the maxim "so that animals have a better life and a more dignified death." At the inauguration he said that at El Capricho “we continue to value beef” with this project that “wants to be circular and sustainable.” For his part, the president of the Cortes of Castilla y León, Carlos Pollán, commented that many "have left here with the idea that man's best friend is the ox."
Write: Monica Uriel. Journalist
