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Alícia Foundation was founded in 2003 by the chef and co-owner of the restaurant El Bulli, Ferran Adrià, and the cardiologist Valentí Fuster, with the aim of promoting a social side, supportive, and committed to cultural power around the world.
History
Initially the activities of the Foundation went into research applying science in culinary products and processes carried out in the kitchen, step by step, these investigations were introduced in the social field by the Foundation not only to create knowledge about science and cooking, but implementing them in social areas through tips and recipes for special dietary needs such as diabetes, celiac disease, phenylketonuria, cancer, cystic fibrosis or ostomies among others. At the same time, Alícia Foundation began to study the schools, hospitals and nursing homes caterings to improve food in canteens and to spread through children's workshops, publications and television programs good eating habits in children and adults.
In late 2007, with the help of a regional bank Foundation: Caixa Manresa and the Catalan government: Generalitat de Catalunya, the new headquarters of Alícia Foundation were inaugurated with a new location in the resort of Món Sant Benet, in Sant Fruitós de Bages.