GASTRONOMIC EXCELLENCES OF THE LAND: EL GOFIO, a centenarian product.

The roasted maize meal is an ancestral food, inheritage from generation to generation. In times of starving, the maize mail turned into the first sustance for the families without resources. It has got good nutritional values, guaranteed by experts on diets and nutrition. Its production is now protected by the Specific Mark of Origin of the Canarian Roasted Maize Meal, and it is made of wheat, corn and sometimes, barley. The Regulation Board warrants the purity of the procedure, from the selection of cereal to its roasted and grinded process. Nowadays like before, it is the result of roasting and grinding cereal and it is present in breakfast time, stews and meat stews; one of its popular variety is the scalding maize mail, added to the hot soup and served with a leaf of mint; it is also a food of the current home and hotel pastrymaking.

Regarded as a Quality Food by the European Union, the roasted meal maize is present in every place of Europe and America where Canarian emigrants are settled, and it can be bought in Miami shops, due to many Canarian emigrants take it even in its traditional forms.