Gastronomy is a new and emerging cultural and creative industry (Richards, “An overview of Food and Tourism Trends policies”)
It is part of the culture of a territory, it is an intangible heritage to be developed and it draws tourism. At the moment we are in a new phase of the economy – the experience economy.
Human beings direct their attention towards intangible heritage such as culture, different lifestyles, creativity and other artforms that they find in the different places they live in or visit.
In the field of gastronomy, the producers, makers and consumers have to form part of the chain that eventually materialises as a delicious culinary surprise.
In Burgos, producers, makers and consumers perform creative work together with the aim of innovating and creating new experiences, while retaining the origins and quality of the original food.
Gastronomy therefore becomes a reservoir of knowledge, tradition, memory and images that can also become an experience and form part of the adventures at the destination visited.
Products can be copied and globalised, however, the local and autochthonous offers a more complete experience at the location where it is produced, prepared and explained. In this experience, authenticity and experience play an important role.
Burgos Creative City of Gastronomy aims to combine these two concepts: AUTHENTICITY, involving the local creative industries, producers, chefs and local businesses that are committed to highlighting the value of everyday food, as well as the EXPERIENCE of sharing knowledge with other cities that are members of the network and with new studies related to the field of nutrition, medicine, or culinary techniques that will make the GASTRONOMY OF BURGOS a reference point the world over.
