FOUNDATION: April 30 of 2000.
MissION
Defend, preserve, promote, disseminate, honor and enhance the
Enogastronomic Heritage of the Autonomous Region of Madeira, including its
customs and practices, its traditions and the techniques and technologies
inherent in their production.
HISTORY
The “CEM – Confraria Enogastronómica da Madeira” (Madeira
Enogastronomic Brotherhood) was born in Madeira Island at April 30 of 2000 as
Madeiran Academy of Meat, by the hand of a group of individuals that were
Madeiran traditional food-lover's, especially the recipes associated with meat.
One of the group's emblematic events was a dinner
to protest the ban, by the European Community, of consumption of beef, due to
the risk of contamination with BSE (mad cow disease) because for them there
were no data to justify this ban and this would have big negative impact at
regional economy. The main course of this event was a beef cutlet and had great
repercussions on the social media.
Imbued with this spirit of safeguard and with the
knowledge of the existence of a international Brotherhood Movement to protect
and promote genuine products and recipes of a particular region, the group is
legal constituted as Madeiran Academy of Meat / Madeira Gastronomic
Brotherhood, embracing all gastronomic heritage of the archipelago of Madeira.
Throughout its years of existence, the Brotherhood
has had an intense activity both regionally, nationally and internationally.
She was one of the founders of the Portuguese Federation of Gastronomic
Brotherhoods and is one of the portuguese brotherhoods with one of the best
annual attendance averages at national and cross-border events.
Since the foundation of the Brotherhood, the Wine
culture has been present allie with Gastronomic culture, with particular
relevence to the openning toast that is done with the historical Madeira Wine.
In the last decades, with the emergence of the
Madeiran still wines, the Madeiran Brothers felt the will to cherish and
promote them too.
In 2019 this inclusion is formalized with new
statutes and consequent amendment, becoming the “CEM – Confraria Enogastronómica
da Madeira” with the mission to defend, preserve, promote, disseminate, honor
and enhance the Enogastronomic Heritage of the Autonomous Region of Madeira,
including its customs and practices, its traditions and the techniques and
technologies inherent in their production.
COSTUME
The brothers wear a red cape with a beige flap, inspired by the costume of 18th century Madeira judges. On their heads, they wear the “Carapuça”, the Madeiran cap, an identity symbol of the region that integrates the Madeiran folklore costume.
The brothers wear a red cape with a beige flap, inspired by the costume of 18th century Madeira judges. On their heads, they wear the “Carapuça”, the Madeiran cap, an identity symbol of the region that integrates the Madeiran folklore costume.
Around the neck, they have a beige scapular with embroidery of different
animals and a tomboladeira in the shape of a half pipe, used to toast with
Madeira Wine and welcome everyone present in their gatherings.
