Latin America's Best Restaurants named Janaina Rueda

SÃO PAULO, Brazil,Janaina Rueda, chef-owner of A Casa do Porco and O Bar da Dona Onça in São Paulo, Brazil, is named the winner of the American Express Icon Award 2020 – Latin America. The recognition, introduced through Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants, displays her dedication to the community, from campaigning for healthful faculty ingredients and inclusive gastronomy to mobilizing enterprise leaders round Covid-19 remedy efforts and supporting prone communities throughout the pandemic. Rueda will be honored at the digital unveiling of the listing of Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants, backed with the aid of S.Pellegrino & Acqua Panna, on third December.

"It is very moneymaking and thrilling to be identified with an award like this," says Rueda. "My hope is that this house will help to elevate attention about vital issues, such as the debate on range and the search for an an increasing number of inclusive and democratic gastronomy. It is our role, as food agents, to help the most vulnerable, specially in this pandemic moment. The time for trade is now!"

When Rueda and her husband Jefferson closed their eating places due to Covid-19, Rueda united almost 1,000 cooks and hospitality people from Brazil to demand economic remedy from the government. Additionally, she became her informal restaurant, O Bar da Dona Onça, into a distribution core taking donations and turning in indispensable gadgets to the most susceptible communities in São Paulo.

The American Express Icon Award 2020 is the first of a collection of one of a kind awards introduced earlier than the listing of Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants 2020. The awards purpose to aid the area all through these difficult instances for the restaurant community.

To highlight the region's large and numerous gastronomic scene and aid its recovery, on twenty fourth November Latin America's 50 Best Restaurants will additionally current El Espíritu de América Latina, a series of informal eating places that have had a effective have an effect on on their communities and which signify the spirit of Latin American cuisine.