Manuel María Puga y Parga

Manuel María Puga y Parga, aka "Picadillo" (1874 – September 30, 1918), was a culinary writer and gastronome who popularized and updated traditional Galician cooking methods. He is a legendary figure among Spanish chefs and gourmands. He was also a lawyer and a politician.

He had a huge sense of humour and he had no problem using it even about himself. For his political biography, he wrote: "In 1882 I was an eight years old man weighing about 75 kg". His excessive weight, which reportedly reached 275 kg, also made him well known. According to writer Luis Anton de Olmert, a circus visited Picadillo's native A Coruña showing a German man as the fattest one in the world, but people got disappointed saying: "Manolo Puga is fatter and you can see him down the street".