Castilian Lentil La Despensa D´Lujo

Information about La Despensa D´Lujo

La Despensa D'Lujo is a Rural Galician company dedicated to traditional agriculture in the Bergatiños region, province of A Coruña. They inherited the farm from past generations. From their grandparents, they inherited not only the land, but also the care and dedication it requires. Today, the young farmers of Coristanco have made the leap from the potatoes and broad beans they grew—first by their grandparents and then by their parents—to introducing crops such as green beans, pink broad beans, teardrop peas, teardrop chickpeas, chervil root, and even the beans for Galician broth, which were in danger of extinction. Their secret is to be sustainable, to care for the land where their vegetables grow, to connect with the earth to give it the best, so that it too responds. Just like their grandparents did.

They cultivate in a traditional way, taking advantage of the resources so that the productions are sustainable, but at the same time they are in a constant process of innovation. They collaborate with the Biological Mission of Galicia, dependent on the Higher Center for Scientific Research (CSIC), but they also carry out their own tests on the field. All these crops are grown on farms they own in Coristanco, but there is also a neighbor who leaves them for free just to avoid seeing them abandoned. It is a way of recovering the land, giving it value while curbing abandonment.

The legumes of La Despensa D´Lujo use for their haute cuisine dishes the great chefs such as: Ricard Camarena, Iván Domínguez, Paco Morales, Rubén Trincado, Adrián Felipez, José Manuel de Dios, Carlos del Portillo, Juanjo López Bezmar, Manuel Costiña , Alberto Laredo or David de Jorge, the right hand of Martín Berasategui.