I was born on August 20, 1990 in Mexico City, where I lived and grew the first 6 years of my life.
In '96 I moved with my family where I had my first close experience with beer. My parents settled in a house near the Cervecería Modelo de Guadalajara, where their banner was Estrella Beer and I constantly perceived the aroma of the sweet must that the production emitted. From that moment I was curious about beer.
My first real experience with beer, apart from being a habitual consumer of this product since I reached the age of majority, was when I joined Grupo Modelo. I started in a program of young talents, where we went through all areas of the company. Without a doubt the moment I enjoyed the most was the two months I was in training at the Cervecería Modelo de Zacatecas, the largest brewery in the world.
In the brewery they showed us the process of brewing, from the arrival of the barley to the dispatch of the trucks with the finished product, and that was where I understood that beer is not just another product. The passion with which it is elaborated and the complexity of its elaboration left me impressed. The beer masters taught us about the styles of beer, tasting and pairing and discovered a world that goes beyond light and dark beer.
Throughout my career in Modelo, I have received numerous certifications of beer knowledge, I have been in more than 30 tastings and pairings with different beers and foods and I have learned that beer is a fundamental element for the history of the human being.
Within my current functions, it is up to me to understand as much as possible the brewing processes and I live every day with the most incredible experts and passionate about beer. I never stop learning.

She is Mexican, mother and happy grandmother, sorjuanista. She obtained a law degree from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana and a master's degree in Latin American history from the Sorbonne University. She is a member, among other associations, of the Consultative Council for the Rescue of the Historical Center, of the Editorial Committee of Politics, Sociology and Law of the Fondo de Cultura Económica (FCE), and is a founding member of the Mexican Society of Bibliophiles. She is also part of the group of researchers convened by the University of California (UC-Mexicanistas), and the International Women's Forum (IWF). Since 2012 she is a member of the Board of Directors of UNIVERSIA-Mexico. In 2016 she was a member of the Consultative Council for the Development of Mediation of the Superior Court of Justice of Mexico City and in December of that same year she was voted unanimously to be part of the Social Commitment for the Quality of Education. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Ministry of Tourism.
In March 2009, she received the Institutional Merit Medal of the Festival de México in the Historic Center, and in November of that same year the Government of the Federal District awarded her the Diploma of Honor in the Bicentennial, for the work done in favor of the rescue of the Historical Center. In October 2011, the Women's Institute distinguished her with the Omecíhuatl Medal for her work in favor of women. In October 2016, she was distinguished with the National Tourism Education Award, granted by the Mexican Association of Higher Education Centers in Tourism and Gastronomy. In November of the same year, she was recognized by the International Association of Researchers for her academic trajectory and leadership. In June 2017, her alma mater awarded her the recognition "Distinguished UAM Graduate" for her outstanding merits in the academic, cultural, humanistic and for her transcendent contribution in the development of the University and the country.
She has participated in national and international congresses related to culture, history, gastronomy, gender studies and education, and has given lectures in Mexico and abroad on different topics, among which Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz stands out. Since 2014, she has participated in the International Meeting of Rectors of Universia, as well as in the meetings of the American Council on Higher Education held in the United States.

Enrique Florescano was born in Coscomatepec, Veracruz, on July 8, 1937. He went to Xalapa to study law and then chose history as a vocation at the Universidad Veracruzana. He has a master's degree in universal history from El Colegio de México, and a doctorate in history from the École Pratique des Hautes Études at the Sorbonne in Paris. He has been a professor in numerous institutions, such as El Colegio de México, the National Autonomous University of Mexico, Cambridge University, Getty Center for the Humanities and Yale University.
His works include Essays on the history of epidemics in Mexico (1980), El mito de Quetzalcóatl (1993), Memoria indígena (1999), Memoria mexicana, essays on the reconstruction of the past (2000), Quetzalcoatl and the founding myths of Mesoamerica (2004), How is a god made? (2016). He has been distinguished with the National Social Sciences Prize of the Academy of Scientific Research, today the Mexican Academy of Sciences (1976); the Academic Palms (1982) and L'Ordre National du Mérite (1985) by France; the National Prize of Sciences and Arts in the area of History, Social Sciences and Philosophy (1996) of Mexico, and was named Emeritus Researcher of the National System of Researchers (2006). In 2016, FIL Guadalajara paid him a well-deserved tribute for the contributions of his work to Mexican history.

With the aim of safeguarding the oral and gastronomic traditions focused on Jalisco, Mexico, Maru Toledo has dedicated her professional life to field research, teaching, writing and publishing 21 cookbooks, among which "Before time alcance ", a compilation of ancient recipes and guide to local ingredients since pre-Hispanic times.
For her research, in 2017 she won the Merit Medal "Ricardo Muñoz Zurita", and in the prestigious Gourmet Awards she was awarded in the category of "Traditional Cook" in the same year.
In 2011, she founded the concept of Mujeres del Maíz, which promotes the ancient culinary culture and gastronomic tourism. In the simple patio of her house she receives, with previous reservation, groups, chefs and amateurs to offer a trip to the past, through the ancestral flavors.

Chef with more than 25 years of work in Mexico and abroad. With important openings in the areas of A & B, strategic planning, supply chain, banquets and events. He has collaborated in important gastronomy projects as founder of the culinary career at the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana, participant in the television program La Historia Sienta a la Mesa in 2012, he was the founding Chef of the Zafiro restaurant at the UCSJ in 2008, He was top Chef of the Air Kitchen (Lufthansa, Iberia, American Airlines, KLM, Aeromexico) in 2002-2004, has been a jury of several awards such as: Iron Chef Toks in 2010/2011, Jury in the Season of the Claustro in 2010 , judge in the contest of the young Chef of Ambrosia in 2002-2003, judge of the Golden Sarten, les Toches Blanches in 1995.
Winner of several important recognitions such as: Best Professor of Gastronomy University of the Cloister of Sor Juana in 2000-2004, Winner in U.S. Meat Export Federation in 2000, Best Chef of the Year at Hotel Presidente Intercontinental in 1999, appeared in the magazine Mexican Leaders in 2012.
He has worked for important restaurants such as Westin, Camino Real, Princess Cuises "Love Boat", and important establishments such as Spago. He currently works for The Palm as Director of Regional Operations.

 Mejía (Colima) is a loving character to his roots, cook, teacher and researcher of colimota cuisine.
Graduated from the Culinary Art School in Tijuana, author of the book "Algas edibles de Baja California" 2016, co-author of the cookbook "Cocineros Mexicanos" 2017, author of the book "Colima a great gastronomic journey" 2018.
Today he is the maximum representative of the culinary Colimense and director of the Colima gastronomic inclusive promotion platform "Colima sabe".
He has represented the cuisine of Colima more than twenty times throughout Mexico. He has also presented the cuisine of Colima abroad in Paris, France, Peru and Chile.
Teacher at the Autonomous University of Guadalajara teaching "Mexican cuisine". He teaches the only master's degree in cooking at Colima in the Master's Degree in Mexican Cooking at the Culinary Art School.
He was the creative chef of the Restaurant Cortez in Guadalajara where he was considered among the "3 to eat" in Guadalajara for the New York Magazine 2015. NOMINATED as "best new restaurant" 2014 and WINNER as "the best casual dinning" 2015 of Mexico in the Gourmet awards by Travel and Leisure magazine
He was a driver and Chef Viajero of the "Mexican cooks" program for Azteca 13 in 2017.

Writer, editor and translator. She studied the Bachelor of Science in Culture at the University of the Cloister of Sor Juana, and French Language and Civilization at the University of La Sorbonne. She studied the Diploma in Literary Creation at the General Society of Writers of Mexico and, as a FONCA fellow, the Master's Degree in Literature at the University of Chile. Her texts have appeared in magazines such as Mexico Desconocido, El Gourmet, Tierra Adentro, El Fanzine and Chilango. As an editor, she has collaborated in print and digital media, international content agencies, as well as Penguin Random House and Grupo Planeta. In 2018 she published La Realidad, her first book of poems, under the Textofilia seal, and edited the first volume of Colima. A great gastronomic journey, by chef Nico Mejía.

Bachelor of Arts and Journalism from the University of Colima, Master in Mexican Literature from the National Autonomous University of Mexico and Doctor of Latin American Literature from the Complutense University of Madrid. He has written the poetry book: Brazo de sol (Secretariat of culture of colima, 2001), Cuadernos de la lengua y el viento (Plan C Editores, 2006), co-authored with Avelino Gómez Guzmán; House of three courtyards (PuertaAbierta Editores, 2012), Los Contradiciones (IMAC / CONACULTA, 2015) and Summer has arrived home (Valparaíso, 2015). Some of his poems appear in anthologies, such as: A wider orb. 40 young poets from Mexico (UNAM, 2005), The kinky gold. Living Poetry of Mexico (BUAP, 2007) and General Anthology of Mexican poetry (Oceano, 2015), among others.
He is editor of the books of the writer Balbino Dávalos: London fogs and other poems (UNAM, 2006), Muses of France (U. de C., 2007), Digressions of a distant past. Memories (U. de C., 2010) and Anthology. I usually write my verses (Universidad de Colima, 2015). He is also the author of the studies: Index of cultural magazines of the 20th century. Mexico City (UNAM, 2007) in co-authorship with Fernando Curiel and Antonio Sierra García; Regino Hernández Llergo interview with Pancho Villa (Observatory of University Innovations, 2009), Notes for the study of the history of written culture in Colima (Historical Archive of the Municipality of Colima), The faces of the hero in the cave (Study Center Literarios, 2009), Full zone (Screens and avenues) (CONACULTA, 2010), Mexican drugs (Language of Rag, 2010), Imaginary and social and cultural representations in transition (2014), co-authored with Aideé Arellano Ceballos, and La patria imagined of the Spanish language. The foundation of literary Mexico in the finsecular Madrid (1868-1914) (2015).
In addition to participating in various national and international conferences, he has written more than a dozen chapters for specialized books in Latin American and Mexican literature, particularly in modernism and modernity. On the same subjects, he has published articles in specialized journals, such as Valenciana, Relaciones, Interpretextos, Journal of hispanic modernism and Liberia, among others.
He has received the State Prize of Poetry (2001), Honorable Mention in the Poetry Prize Point of Departure (2004), State Prize of Youth (2004), Mention Homnorífica by Thesis of the Master in Mexican Literature by the National Autonomous University of Mexico (2006), Caja Madrid International Essay Award (2011), Cum Lauden for Postgraduate Thesis in Spanish-American Literature by the Complutense University of Madrid (2012) and National Poetry Prize Tijuana (2014); as well as the scholarships of the State Fund for Culture and the Arts (2000-2001) and the Program for the Improvement of Teachers (2009-2012). He has been academic coordinator of the degree in Hispanic American Literature (2007), deputy director (2008-2009) and director of the Faculty of Letters and Communication of the University of Colima (2011-2015). In addition, he served as general director of Radio Universidad.

Trained professionally as a Bachelor of Communication Sciences and with sommelier studies in La Rioja, Spain, Claudio Poblete Ritschel has developed his career in the ranks of journalism, culinary research and culinary criticism, in which he has more than two decades from experience.
He is a member of advisory councils of national and international congresses, distinctions and festivals such as: Food Mexico, Mesmer, Chef of the Year Mexico, Culinary Expo Monterrey, Food and Wine Ixtapa, The Knowledge of Taste Oaxaca, Bohemian Distinction and Travel Gourmet Awards & Leisure.
He is the gastronomic coordinator of the Ensenada Gastronómica, Sonora astronómica, COME Jalisco, Kooben Yucatán and Culinary Crafts congresses in Mexico City; judge of the competitions: Chef of the Year Mexico, National Contest of Sommeliers, Mexico Selection of the World Contest of Brussels and the Young Mexican Chef.
In 2011 he was named Master of Mexican Cuisine by the Conservatory of Mexican Gastronomic Culture.
During 2012 he was recognized as journalist of the year by the Vatel Club of Mexico, thanks to the work at the head of his magazine, Culinaria Mexicana, which has also been nominated twice as the best regional cuisine portal in the world by the prestigious magazine Saveur from United States. 

He is the founder of Grupo Culinaria Mexicana, a company that provides professional services in the field of the Hospitality Industry.