Carmina Useros Explained

Carmina Useros
Birth Name:Carmina Useros Cortés
Birth Date:24 February 1928
Birth Place:Albacete, Spain
Death Place:Albacete, Spain
Occupation:Writer, ceramist, painter, cultural manager
Spouse:Manuel Belmonte González
Alma Mater:Complutense University of Madrid

Carmina Useros Cortés (24 February 1928 – 23 March 2017) was a Spanish writer, ceramist, painter, and cultural manager. A researcher of the gastronomic, artisan, and cultural traditions of Albacete, she was one of the first women gastronomes in Spain.[1] [2] [3]

She was president and director of the, a member of the,[4] a founding member of the Castilian-Manchego Gastronomy Academy,[1] an honorary member of the, a director of the Cueva de la Leña Art Gallery, and president of the Gastronomic Association that bears her name.

Biography

Carmina Useros earned a licentiate in teaching at the Normal School of Albacete. She studied Philosophy and Literature at the Complutense University of Madrid. In the 1950s she taught women to read and write. Until 1972 she cooked for the . In the 1970s, she was the only woman to sign a letter of support for the anti-Francoist .[1]

She married the ophthalmologist Manuel Belmonte González, and in 1968 they began touring the Province of Albacete, researching and recovering its cultural heritage.[5] She drew on these experiences to write publications such as the 1971 cookbook Mil recetas de Albacete y su provincia (A Thousand Recipes of Albacete and its Province)[6] and 1973's En busca de la Artesanía de Albacete (In Search of the Crafts of Albacete).[7] The couple later expanded their travels throughout the Iberian Peninsula and the Bealearic and Canary archipelagos. The materials that made up the Belmonte-Useros collection would be the foundation of a museum of clay crafts, the in Chinchilla de Montearagón, an enclave in which clay had been worked since the Neolithic.[8] In 1970 they restored the Agujero de Chinchilla Caves, making them an art gallery.[2]

Useros developed an intense focus on the dissemination and reading of Don Quixote, organizing the "Ruta del Quijote" in 1971. In 1995 she began a cycle of readings of Quixote held every first Sunday of the month in La Mancha's village of Casa del Olivar, offering a Quixotic food to those who attended.

Useros and Belmonte had five children – Manuel, Pilar, José Pablo, the politician, and the soprano .[2]

Carmina Useros died in Albacete on 23 March 2017 after a long illness.[1] [3]

Publications

Awards and distinctions

In 2002, Carmina Useros received the Albacetian of the Year award from the President of Castilla–La Mancha, José Bono.[10]

The novelist and gastronome Manuel Vázquez Montalbán mentions her in his novel La Rosa de Alejandría as "the excellent Carmina Useros".[11]

Notes and References

  1. News: La desconocida gastrónoma que situó Albacete en el mapa . The Unrecognized Gastronome Who Put Albacete on the Map . . Spanish . 26 March 2017 . 26 March 2019.
  2. News: Carmina Useros, pasión por la alfarería y la gastronomía tradicional, una historia ligada al Museo de Cerámica Nacional de Chinchilla, colección única de alfarería popular . Carmina Usersos, Passion for Pottery and Traditional Gastronomy, a History Linked to the National Ceramic Museum of Chinchilla, Unique Collection of Popular Pottery . La Cerca . Spanish . 25 December 2008 . 26 March 2019.
  3. Web site: Muere Carmina Useros . Carmina Useros Dies . Kiko . Aznar . . Albacete . Spanish . 24 March 2017 . 26 March 2019.
  4. Book: La creación del Instituto de Estudios Albacetenses y la nueva etapa de la revista 'Al-Basit' . The Creation of the Institute of Albacete Studies and the New Stage of the Magazine 'Al-Basit' . Centro de Estudios de Castilla-La Mancha . 11 . Spanish . 26 March 2019 . University of Castilla–La Mancha . 17 April 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170417235643/http://biblioteca2.uclm.es/biblioteca/ceclm/ARTREVISTAS/ALBASIT/Alb5Creacion.pdf . dead .
  5. News: Manuel Belmonte González, oftalmólogo . Manuel Belmonte González, Ophthalmologist . . Spanish . 4 October 1985 . 26 March 2019.
  6. Book: Martínez Llopis, Manuel . Historia de la gastronomía española . History of Spanish Gastronomy . Val de Onsera . 9788449101151 . 437 . Spanish . 1995 . 26 March 2019 . Google Books.
  7. Book: Díaz Arenas, Ángel . La nueva fisiología del gusto (según Vázquez Montalbán) . The New Physiology of Taste (According to Vázquez Montalbán) . Editorial Verbum . 9788490745991 . 62–63 . 15 December 2017 . 26 March 2019 . Google Books.
  8. Book: Hernández, Felipe Julián . La Transición Política en Murcia: Crónica Del Proceso Autonómico . The Political Transition in Murcia: Chronicle of the Autonomic Process . Ediciones Mediterráneo . 9788485856398 . 402 . Spanish . 1984 . 26 March 2019 . Google Books.
  9. Book: Mendoza Díaz-Maroto, Francisco . Introducción al romancero oral en la provincia de Albacete . Introduction to Oral Ballads in the Province of Albacete . Institute of Albacete Studies . 98, 103 . Spanish . 1989 . 9788487136085 . 26 March 2019 . Google Books.
  10. Web site: José Bono entregó el premio Albaceteño del año a Carmina Useros Cortés . José Bono Presents the Albacetian of the Year Award to Carmina Useros Cortés . . Spanish . 22 February 2003 . 26 March 2019.
  11. Book: Díaz Arenas, Angel . Introducción a la lectura de la obra narrativa de Manuel Vázquez Montalbán . Introduction to the Reading of the Narrative Work of Manuel Vázquez Montalbán . Platos y vinos . Dishes and Wines . Edition Reichenberger . 9783930700257 . 95 . Spanish . 1995 . 26 March 2019 . Google Books.

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