Spain lands on Expo 2010 Shanghai with 49 Michelin stars

The Spanish Society for International Exhibitions presents at the Spanish Pavilion a gastronomic program with worldwide outstanding chefs as ambassadors of Spanish products.

Gastronomy is the most representative expression of cultural fusion. And there can’t be a better occasion than the Universal Expo Shanghai 2010 that it will count with the participation of 127 countries and 70 million of potential visitors for showing the world the status of excellence of the Spanish chefs and products.

Along the six months that the Expo will be going on, the Spanish Pavilion will present every week a gastronomic menu built up by two chefs: one of them will be Spanish (belonging to the Spanish region that will be celebrating its week) and the other one will be foreign, becoming a tasteful symbol of cultural integration and interaction. 38 renowned chefs of 15 nationalities will be willing to prove that sitting at a table is the best way to build an encounter between cultures.

The gastronomic menu will be elaborated with the excellence products of the region to which each week will be devoted and will be served all week (lunch and dinner) at the restaurant of the Gran Meliá Shanghái.
This way, 17 different gastronomic menus will be offered, prepared with ingredients of the maximum quality coming from each Spanish region and moreover cooked by the best possible ambassadors: the best chefs in the world. Among all the outstanding professionals in culinary arts that will meet in this gastronomic program we can find 49 Michelin Stars.

At the Gran Meliá Shanghai kitchen four of the main members of the Basque Culinary Center (BCC) will be Juan Mari Arzak, Martín Berasategui, Pedro Subijana and Andoni Adúriz, Galician Pepe Solla; from Madrid, Paco Roncero, the andalucian chef Dani García and from Navarra, Pedro Larumbe, Elena Arzak from Basque country … but also the highly renowned Chinese Chef Da Dong (Roast Duck), from the Ritz in Paris Michel Roth and the head of the MOMA restaurant in New York, Gabriel Kreuther, along with long list of prestigious chefs.

It is High Cuisine festival, a gastronomic fiesta, a metaphor of the gigantic cultural exchange that will take place in Shanghai 2010 where Spain, its cuisine and its products will open up to the world.