Axel Manríquez, Chilean Chef: “Plates Like the Porots with Reins Will Be Extinguished if the Restaurants Don’t Weigh Them Well”

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When chef Axel Manríquez (56 years old, Santiago), researcher of the Chilean gastronomic heritage comes to a funeral, gently approaches the most veteran women to ask them what they ate when they were girls. Aware that there are recipes that are lost in time and that the only way to recover and validate them is by means of oral communication, the national prescriber expert does not waste the opportunities to thicken his archive of traditional pre…