La Selecta was a cafe-laboratory for the arts and sciences with cultural and artistic practices in a very lax sense. It follows the philosophy of free culture and social economy. This particular iteration of La Selecta, located in the Buitrago de Lozoya village in Sierra Norte, Madrid, existed for almost two years: 2013 and 2014. In this time span we combined several courses of action. The first was that of gastronomy– we are what we eat and drink, after all. For this end, we created a restaurant with vegetarian and vegan alternatives where the foods we offered were very locally sourced, all of this guided by our political reflections on gastronomy. From there we had a source of primary income that allowed us to develop other lines of work, one more artistic and another more scientific, understanding science in a very broad sense. These three courses of action—gastronomic, artistic, and scientific— were combined throughout the course of every week in our work.
