Speaker

Juliana Duque

Director - Undergraduate of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts at PUJ de Cali

Consultant, editor and writer in cooking and gastronomy with a Master’s and Doctorate in Sociocultural Anthropology from Cornell University and an undergraduate degree in Philosophy from the National University of Colombia. Her work focuses on the dynamics of the networks around the production and consumption of food, based on the tension between tradition and culinary innovation.

She was an advisor in several projects for the implementation of the Colombian traditional cuisine policy of the Ministry of Culture, a researcher and coordinator in different cuisine and food publications, and editor of the Colombian magazine Cocina Semana of Grupo Semana.

Author of the book Sabor de Casa: 12 ways of making Colombian cuisine and the history of its protagonists (Intermedio Editores, 2017) and of the chapter “Ways of Colombian Cuisine: Interpretation of Traditional Culinary Knowledge in Three Cultural Settings” in Cooking Technology: Transformations in Culinary Practice in Mexico and Latin America (Stefan Igor Ayora-Díaz, ed., Bloomsbury, 2016).

She is a consultant editor and writer in the Eater Guide to Bogotá (2018) and 35 Essential Cartagena Restaurants-Eater Travel 2020, as well as “100 times Colombia”, special edition of Cocina Semana magazine (2018). She recently designed the Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Program at the Pontifica Universidad Javeriana Cali, Colombia, in conjunction with the institutional team and prepared the corresponding Master Document. She has directed this academic program since March 2020. She was also a researcher and local curator of the Bogotá chapter for the Netflix series Street Food Latin America, and editor of the manual and cookbook “Legal uses of the Coca plant by Colombian chefs” of the Open Society Foundations in alliance with SENA, Colombia.

She recently co-authored the Annual Technical Report of the Sustainable Colombia Program 2019 of the Inter-American Development Bank, focused on agriculture and sustainable production processes in territories affected by violence; She and she collaborate curating content and writing for the blog of the Network of Gastronomic Events of Colombia (REGCO), of the initiative “Colombia a la Mesa” -Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism.

She has several years of publishing experience with books on food and cooking and teaching and research in the anthropology of food and the relationship between gastronomy and culture.

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