The couple from Granada met on the television program First Dates and when Olmos got a teaching position in Lanzarote, they moved to the island. Here they created a popular social media channel to promote Lanzarote's gastronomy and its best restaurants.
Both come from families with coffee shops and have also just launched a channel to promote the benefits of specialty coffee. This is how they explained it in a recent interview with the radio program Más de Uno Gourmet on Radio Lanzarote- Onda Cero.
- How did you end up in Lanzarote?
Óscar: Ana is a teacher, we came for a job opportunity of hers and love brought me here, literally.
- How did the idea of publishing on social media about Lanzarote come about?
Óscar: We started doing social media a bit by chance, because we had a lot of fun. Then things grew until we launched a video that became very famous and many media outlets contacted us. From then on, we decided to focus on gastronomy to showcase both the smallest and largest businesses.
- What distinguishes your publications?
Óscar: I think one of our strengths is that we never criticize any establishment we visit. If we go to a place we don't like or something, we simply don't publish the video.
- I understand you don't charge for your publications…
Ana: Exactly, when we've made videos, it's been because we've genuinely wanted to go there to eat, and other times because we've been invited. We've never done it for money and always with the familiarity that is our essence.
We met while eating, on the program First Dates, and from then on we continued to get to know each other through food, and when we travel, we do it through food.
- What impression did you have of Lanzarote's gastronomy when you moved to the island?
Oscar: I was very surprised because we came from the Mediterranean diet, not the Atlantic diet. So, it's true that there were many things I had never even heard of, like 'pella de gofio', which I love now. Lanzarote's gastronomy is extremely rich and very varied.
- Tell us about that new project related to coffee…
Ana: Both of us come from families with coffee shops. We will continue with Lanzarote's gastronomy, but we are also launching a new specialty coffee project.
Óscar: People don't know what they're drinking when they consume a coffee capsule at home. They are ingesting microplastics and heavy metals. In Spain, we don't really know coffee, it's the only country where torrefacto is consumed.
Torrefacto is produced by adding sugar to the bean until it burns, and it's done to mask the defects the bean has, which often comes rotten. Our mission is to introduce the fantastic world of specialty coffee. You can follow us at first coffee lovers specialty coffee. Coffee should be sweet and fruity, not bitter.
https://firstcoffeelovers.es/
Let's remember your social networks…
Óscar: We are on all social networks, but the main channel we work on is Instagram with Granadinos por Lanzarote and First Coffee Lovers.
Add La Voz de Lanzarote as a preferred Google source.
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