{"id":4613,"date":"2022-08-04T21:50:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-04T19:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/?p=4613"},"modified":"2022-08-04T21:55:48","modified_gmt":"2022-08-04T19:55:48","slug":"dioselina-bell-the-queen-of-edible-flowers-and-gourmet-herbs-of-panama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/2022\/08\/04\/dioselina-bell-the-queen-of-edible-flowers-and-gourmet-herbs-of-panama\/","title":{"rendered":"Dioselina Bell, the Queen of Edible Flowers and Gourmet Herbs of Panama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The life of each person is always in constant change,\none day we are doing an important job thinking that it is for good, and another\nday an innovative and exquisite work is being done, such as the production of\nedible flowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is the case of Dioselina Bell, a woman, mother, wife and\nprofessional, whom before working on flowers, was a psychology professor and\ncoordinated this career School at the USMA (Universidad Santa Maria la\nAntigua). A very dynamic person, sociable and proud of what she has\naccomplished in her life, and even more so now that she has the job of her\ndreams. Dioselina Bell\nhas left her mark on the Panamanian gastronomic industry to the point of being\nrecognized as Panama’s queen of edible flowers and gourmet herbs and even\noffering her talent to guests of great international importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What\nmotivated you to start producing edible flowers and gourmet or aromatic herbs?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWell, all my life I have liked flowers, it is a\nlegacy that I bring from the times that my grandmother took care of me. She had\nvery nice gardens and she always knew the name of the flowers, being my first experience\nfrom an early age. I was motivated to produce flowers on a large scale when I\ncame to start working with my husband at the company, while he produced\nhydroponic vegetable produce such as different varieties of lettuce, mint, rugula,\ncoriander, chard, among others. While producing these healthy products, we made\nspecialties, and I became more and more involved in the company with him\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Describe the variety of edible flowers and which\none is the most requested and why?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs for the variety of edible flowers that I produce,\nthere are violas, pansys, nasturtium, carnations, calendula, chamomile, cosmos,\nroses, and carnations, that are spectacularly colorful. However, the ones that\npeople like the most are the pansys,\nbecause are attractive and very pretty, they give dishes a lot of showiness. A\nkind of flower that gastronomy professionals know a lot, having both Pastry\nChefs and Culinary Chefs request them a lot.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Your flowers were even on Pope Francis\u2019s dishes during\nhis visit to Panama. What is the difference between an order for a public\npersonality and a daily client?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The selection of orders and specialties is actually\ndone by the Chefs, my orders are framed around what they request for the\ncreations they are making. An example is Chef Cuquita who asks me for the\nflowers that best suit her dishes, especially when she was in charge of Pope\nFrancis’ food during WYD 2018. At the Summit of the Americas held in Panama we\nattended many chefs who were in charge of preparing the gastronomic dishes for\nthe international personalities invited.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How can your talent be developed so that it\nbecomes an icon of our Panamanian identity?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don’t know if it was luck or virtue that I have\nproduced flowers and decorations for Chefs of different nationalities who have\nbeen our target market and they have promoted me. In 2018 we won the prize of\nthe good fork precisely, based on the quality and variety of my products and a digital\nplatform where they began to ask the Chefs, which were the producers that\nserved them the best and I got first place, because many mentioned my flowers.\nI always try to innovate and bring new things, yes, attached to the\ninvestigation of what can really be eaten, bearing in mind that there are many producers\nin the world that precisely produce them and I learn a lot from them,\neverything about the\nedible flowers. I am happy that my research and contributions have placed me as\na pioneer in Panama’s gastronomy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What is your vision of gastronomic tourism in\nPanama and what do you propose to develop it even more?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cGastronomic tourism in Panama has a great future,\nbecause the typical dishes are very accepted by most other nationalities, we\nhave also already made some adaptations that have improved or added a more\ngourmet touch to the typical dishes and it has been a delicacy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I think that if people of each town in Panama decides\nto add a touch of what they know how to do, of what they inherited from their\nancestors who did it with love, keeping those customs leads people to be\ninterested in the history of these dishes. In Panama we still lack culture to\nlearn to value and try to highlight the meaning of each dish, each recipe from\nthe grandmother or the neighbor who lived before and who made contributions\nthat remained for the next generations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What advice would you give to all the people who\nhave an innovative idea and don’t dare to carry it out?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI recommend people who have an innovative idea and\ndon’t dare to do it to lose their fear, to try to start and do it little by\nlittle. Always understanding that at the beginning there are always trials and\nerrors, but that only those experiences are what will lead us to reach the\ngoal. You have to be persistent, organized, never give up, put a lot of love\ninto what you do, dedicate yourself to these tasks. You always have to be\nhonest, not corrupt, because you have those values \u200b\u200band integrity that make\nyou a better person. All this will open the doors for you to achieve everything\nfor which you have been working.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The life of each person is always in constant change, one day we are doing an important job thinking that it is for good, and another day an innovative and exquisite work is being done, such as the production of edible flowers. This is the case of Dioselina Bell, a woman, mother, wife and professional, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4614,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4613"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4620,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4613\/revisions\/4620"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevisitorpanama.info\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}