GASTRONOMIC ECUATORIAN FESTIVAL SHERATON MARIA ISABEL & TOWERS

• From August 31 to September 6, it will be possible enjoy the Ecuadorian food in the Mexico City.
  
• From 7 p.m., in the Restaurant Amici the Ecuadorian cuisine will offer, with a cost of 290 pesos for person.
  
• The Chef Christian Rafael Ramirez will move from Quito, Ecuador to the Mexico City to prepare the saucers of this Latin-American country.

From August 31 to September 6 will be celebrate the festival of Ecuadorian food in Sheraton Maria Isabel Hotel & Towers in the Restaurant Amici. From 7 p.m., will present the saucers in a buffet of gastronomic degustation that will include from bar of salads and traditional plates as the Timbushca with ribs, potatoes Locro with cheese, Encocado of shrimp, Loin of pork in sauce of orange and taxo, fried Pargo in sauce of pepas of bowlegged and desserts as the sweet of figs in black honey and the perfume of spirit of the equator, among others. The Ecuadorian current food is the result of a rich culinary tradition, in which substances and European customs are combined.

The gastronomy in Ecuador emphasizes the diversity of ingredients, among which they find the fished ones and seafood, the meats of lamb; pork, cow and turkey, as well as you eat them, the corn and diverse fruits and vegetables. The Chef Christian Rafael Ramirez, of Sheraton Quito will realize personally the food combination. "Ecuador is very well located geographically and the ingredients come principally from the Pacific Ocean, from the Andes and with the Amazonian jungle. The cuisine turns concerning the fish, with which the etnias of the zone elaborate diverse autochthonous plates".

"In the Ecuadorian cuisine one uses very much the spices as the chili, coriander, parsley, cinnamon, which provides an excellent flavor in the saucers", aimed at the Chef Christian Rafael. Guido Stütz, The Director of food and beverages of Sheraton Maria Isabel, will receive as culinary guest the Chef Ramirez and will arrange every team of kitchen of the hotel to help in the preparation of the recipes and saucers. This gastronomic festival, the second of the year that is realized in Sheraton Maria Isabel, seeks to promote the gastronomy of other countries among the Mexicans, as well as to provide a space for the Ecuadorian community to remember and to enjoy their culture.

About the Chef Rafael Ramirez counts with more than 10 years of experience in the Ecuadoran cuisine. Original of the Quito City, Ecuador, he has taken part in openings of restaurants and hotels. Nowadays is the Chef of the Cook's Restaurant of the hotel Sheraton Quito.