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Teresita Román de Zurek (29 December 1925 – 2 May 2021) was a Colombian writer and chef.El fogón de D'Artagnan - Page 249 Roberto Posada García-Peña, Benjamín Villegas - 2005 "Y así también lo describe Teresita Román de Zurek en su estupendo libro Cartagena de Indias en la olla, cuando ordena, con pelos (?) y señales, las siguientes instrucciones para preparar, sin reatos y en cualquier parte del mundo,..."


Biography

Teresa Román was born in
Cartagena, Colombia Cartagena ( ), known since the colonial era as Cartagena de Indias (), is a city and one of the major ports on the northern coast of Colombia in the Caribbean Coast Region, along the Caribbean Sea. Cartagena's past role as a link in the route ...
, 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, a pink soda drink, which she used as an ingredient in many of her recipes. In 1963, Román published her first
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, ''Cartagena de Indias en la Olla'', which has since been published in 45 editions in
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and
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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
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. Román began working at the Colombian Red Cross in the
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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
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. 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
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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
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about real-life characters who had inspired characters from his books.


See also

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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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