Diseño y elaboración de una oferta gastronómica basada en el café para potenciar la ruta turística Loja sabor a café , propuesta por el Ministerio de Turismo del Ecuador, coordinación Zonal 7 de Loja, durante el año 2018

Abstract

Abstract:The province of Loja has been characterized by its coffee diversity, this is added to the tourist promotion that aspires to place coffee as an emblematic product through the producing farms that make up the Loja coffee flavor circuit. For this reason, this research work is aimed at formulating a gastronomic proposal where the emblem productis combined, in this case, coffee and agricultural products from each of the farms. Starting with a documentary investigation of the organoleptic properties of coffee and the autochthonous products of each farm, it was posible to experiment in a private cold kitchen laboratory various culinary combinations, base on a gastronomics oftware called food pairing,which allows in as cientific way to harmonize foods and make the mixtures between certain edible products work well, thus developing the standard recipes fo reach pass to be presented in the gastronomic proposal, it was then putt othe consideration of a panel of evaluators whoans were dan acceptability test and an intensity test, whose tabulation and data analysis yielded very satisfactory results regarding the use of coffee in the 4 proposed courses.