Marisa Sánchez Echaurren (27 January 1933 – 19 August 2018)[1] was a Spanish chef, gourmet and businesswoman.
[3] Born in Ezcaray, La Rioja, Marisa Sánchez led the fourth generation of the restaurateur family that owns the nowadays known as Hotel Echaurren Gastronómico.
According to the parish archives of Ezcaray, as early as 1698 an inn was located in front of the church that offered lodging and stables.
Among her most famous dishes is the croquette,[5] praised by the public and critics, but also other preparations such as monkfish with clams, fish soup from Echaurren, pochas a la riojana with tomato fry, "grandmother's meatballs", Hake with the romana, the lamb legs or the corns with calf snouts.
The first to include Marisa Sánchez in the gastronomic map of the critics were Xavier Domingo and Rafael Ansón.