CEM - Madeira Enogastronomic Brotherhood




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.
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.



 

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