United States/ 20 March 2023: Cruz Miguel Ortz Cuadra, a historian, and educator passed away on March 8 in San Juan, and the island’s culinary community is mourning the loss of a devoted champion.
Through the New York Times, his brother Carlos Ortz Cuadra reported that the 67-year-old gastronomy expert was in remission after overcoming lung cancer and had just experienced a heart attack. His five siblings and wife, Anita Gonzalez, are left behind.
| Name | Date of Birth | Date of Death | Cause of Death |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cruz Miguel | January 1, 1970 | March 19, 2023 | Heart Attack |
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Cruz Miguel Ortz Cuadra, a food scholar who worked to define the island’s dish and spread awareness of it around the world as Puerto Rico’s foremost gastronomy expert, passed away on March 8 in San Juan, P.R. He was 67.
- Ortz Cuadra was raised in Puerto Riceven though he was born in Georgia, where his mother instilled a lifelong love of traditional island cuisine.
- After attending a culinary seminar in Oxford, England, while enrolled at Ruskin College, his interest was aroused and later deepened.
- He later wrote his dissertation on Puerto Rico’s historical gastronomy after returning to San Juan to obtain his doctorate from the University of Puerto Rico. This experience caused him to reflect on the significance and implications of a culture’s cuisine.
- His first book, “Eating Puerto Rico: A History of Food, Culture, and Identity,” is regarded as one of the most significant and comprehensive works on the gastronomic history of Puerto Rican cuisine and was inspired by Ortz Cuadra’s dissertation.
It was the start of a career spent exploring and disseminating the special island’s illustrious culinary past, which also influenced its culinary present and future.
Ortz Cuadra Generously Shared His Love of the History of Food
Cruz Because of his love for Puerto Rican food, Miguel Ortz Cuadra has dedicated his life to spreading knowledge of and promoting the island’s culinary heritage.
- His thorough research helped to define and link specific ingredients that were unique to the island’s traditional cuisine and educated future generations about the significance of their culinary heritage.
- Ortz Cuadra continued to write books about how globalization has affected Puerto Rican cuisine to share his understanding of the cultural significance of food history.
- He educated people about the history of Puerto Rican ingredients, which have been around for centuries due to colonization, bad weather, and farming difficulties in the archipelago.
- He oversaw a project that called for the designation of roasted pork as a heritage food and pointed out the critical distinction between plantains and bananas, which are both used in Puerto Rico’s national dish, mofongo.
- In addition to rising to the rank of esteemed professor of humanities at the University of Puerto Rico, he later hosted a podcast and gave numerous speeches.
Cruz Miguel Ortz Cuadra played a key role in shaping and developing Puerto Rico’s culinary culture. He contributed significantly to an entire culture as a teacher, author, culinary historian, and supporter of culinary history. His life’s work will never be forgotten.
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