La alta cocina de la Baja California, ¿un nuevo mestizaje culinario?

The present essay tries to give a general view of the High Cuisine that is currently being generated in Baja California. This phenomenon may be interpreted as an answer of the region to international culinary tendencies, or as a proposal developed by its own cooks. With the idea of understanding the route followed by them, the following methodology is considered: First, the existence of a huge culinary transformation in the region is outlined, which may mean, either a revolution or an evolution in the present culinary practices of Baja California. Second, I sketch the geographic framework and historical context related to the cultural task as the basis of any culinary construction. Third, an analysis of international Fusion Kitchen and what has been called a New Culinary "Mestizaje", with the idea of establishing concepts that allow us to determine the two possible directions of the High Cuisine of Baja California. Fourth, I make a particular analysis of the geographic and historical framework so as to deepen the study of this phenomenon. Fifth I outline the core issue of the thesis for future analysis. Sixth, I establish the possible conclusions of the phenomenon. All in all this essay is intended to approximate and motivate scholars of culinary arts to a possible encounter with the High Cuisine of Baja California.

Introducción -- Geografía e historia -- Fusión o nuevos mestizajes -- Baja California, ¿un nuevo mestizaje culinario? -- Propuesta con retos -- Una nueva cultura culinaria en México