Have you tasted their molecular pisco sour? (I) The rules of verse
Cement, metallurgy and food, the children of fire
passionate about and amazed by the story that we address today.
Did you know that as essential elements for progress and survival of humanity, such as cement, metallurgy and food are "triplets?".
all started the fire, the powerful element in Greek mythology, Prometheus was only able to snatch the gods.
Then came the potters, blacksmiths, goldsmiths, alchemists, builders builders, engineers, and our modern chefs.
Miguel Casafranca, chemical Cementos Lima SA, one of the largest and most profitable partnerships in Peru, has become a pioneer in this country, molecular gastronomy, a new discipline, which the international teacher Acurio surely must already have information.
If you are interested, tomorrow Casafranca give us an interesting and captivating recipe for a tasty and molecular pisco sour spirits, meanwhile, let's travel to the remote past.
Beyond the stove and the microwave
researchers observe that the homo sapiens, at the dawn of humanity, discovered the fire, that dreaded and terrifying element of nature that contrasted with the water, wind, mountains, snow, soil, fruits and hunted animals, could help you master all forces had to face and, well, live better.
then demonstrated the rudiments of construction, metallurgy and the food.
There was no magic wand. Were the result of a lengthy and elaborate process of finding random, repetitions, experiments, mistakes and successes.
The famous writer and researcher Romanian Mircea Eliade (1), tracked atavistic myths of man, to conjecture how the primitive society outlined the bases of chemistry and physics, such as blacksmiths and forgers primitive, and then themselves, amazed, spirituality attributed to its casual and causal discovery, to become alchemists.
metaphysics or spirituality of matter.
The natural cave was no longer enough. Thus, after the stone and mud, was found the basement of the building, from the cement.
First was the accidental fire to warm weather.
Then came the rain on the limestone, or overheated stove, put to cook the fruits and meats. Al next day, the ashes had acquired property caked hard, tough, waterproof. He was born on cement, concrete.
In the genesis of the fire-Saramago (2) what sounds like the potter's oven-combined with other elements of our living planet, were born two brackets to human civilization, in effect until these global times: the home and food, cement and gastronomy.
Today, after having faced the vicissitudes of a severe global financial crisis, Peruvians staged a triple boom: The boom in construction, mining and global roadshow to our great, inimitable culinary taste. ----------------
(1) Mircea Eliade, Blacksmiths and Alchemists.
(2) José Saramago, The Cave.
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