Teresita Román de Zurek (29 December 1925 – 2 May 2021) was a Colombian writer and chef.
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Biography
Teresa Román was born in
Cartagena, Colombia
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, 29 December 1925. She came from a family of prominent chemists who emigrated from Spain in the early nineteenth century. Her father invented
Kola Román
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, a pink soda drink, which she used as an ingredient in many of her recipes.
In 1963, Román published her first
cookbook
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Cookbooks may be general, or may specialize in a particular cuisine or category of food.
Recipes in cookbooks are organized in various ways: by course (appetizer, first cour ...
, ''Cartagena de Indias en la Olla'', which has since been published in 45 editions in
Spanish
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and
English
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. In 1998, she published ''Mis Postres'', a short cookbook mostly consisting of chocolate desserts. In 2004, she received a distinction from the Popayan Cooking Festival for her work to preserve the native cuisine of Cartagena. Román also belonged to the international
Chaîne des Rôtisseurs.
Román began working at the Colombian Red Cross in the
Department of Bolivar
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in the mid-1960s. She founded the association "Damas Grises" and was its regional president from 1992 to 2000, before being named Honorary National President.
The Fundación Casa Museo del Cabrero works to promote the legacy of Colombian President
Rafael Nuñez. The Rafael Nuñez House museum is located in the Cabrero neighborhood in Cartagena. Román led the organization after the death of founder Eduardo Lemaitre.
Román lived in Casa Román, an extravagant nineteenth-century Moorish property in Cartagena.
[EBERSHOFF, David. SLEEPING BEAUTY. Condé Nast Traveler Magazine, March 2007] She had a collection of 1,470 dolls representing the nations of the world. She began the collection in 1948 with a Romería del Rocío baby doll in a frilly linen skirt. One of her most recent acquisitions was a doll of
Shakira
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. The dolls are stored in glass displays in a corner room of Casa Román.
She was awarded several times for her contribution to and preservation of the culture of Colombia and Cartagena. In 2006, she was named Honorary Mayor of the City of Cartagena de Indias.
Legacy
Roman was included in a book by
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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about real-life characters who had inspired characters from his books.
See also
*
Colombian cuisine
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References
Sources
* http://www.cartagenacaribe.com/cultura/cocina.htm
* https://web.archive.org/web/20110606044504/http://www.univision.com/content/content.jhtml?cid=768468
* https://web.archive.org/web/20070313220008/http://www.ocexcelsior.com/mi_cocina/0715/0715_mi_cocina_er_sancocho.shtml
* https://web.archive.org/web/20070928070204/http://www.concierge.com/cntraveler/articles/detail?articleId=10622&pageNumber=5
* https://web.archive.org/web/20091109163417/http://www.teresitaromandezurek.com/
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1925 births
2021 deaths
Colombian women writers
Colombian chefs
Colombian people of Spanish descent
People from Cartagena, Colombia
Colombian non-fiction writers