Corfu Food & Wine Festival opens this evening in Spianada Square
festival
09 May 2018
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CORFU. The festival opens this evening in the central Spianada Square, where members of Corfu Chefs Club will cook and present some traditional Corfu dishes to members of the public – pastitsada, bourdeto, bianco and many other Corfu ‘brands’ will be on show accompanied by local wine and beer.
Local producers will exhibit their products and businesses and local music and dance groups will be performing and reinforcing Corfu’s cultural identity.
A 5-day culinary feast awaits tens of thousands of visitors to Corfu as well as residents – Greek and foreign. In the island’s restaurants, village squares and the largest square in Greece – Spianada, they will be able to experience the history of Corfu cuisine from Homeric times to the present day and discover modern creative trends and new products.
The best chefs on the island, the Corfu Chefs Club, restauranteurs and hoteliers along with the valuable help of students at the School of Tourism are preparing the first Food & Wine Festival on the island where the first table was laid for a stranger – Odysseus (Ulysses).
The aim of the festival is to promote the local cuisine as a major part of the history and culture of Corfu and the Ionian Islands – as is well-known, the first recorded reference to the social aspect of gastronomy was in the hospitality offered to Odysseus on the island of Phaeacians.
A 5-day culinary feast awaits tens of thousands of visitors to Corfu as well as residents – Greek and foreign. In the island’s restaurants, village squares and the largest square in Greece – Spianada, they will be able to experience the history of Corfu cuisine from Homeric times to the present day and discover modern creative trends and new products.
The best chefs on the island, the Corfu Chefs Club, restauranteurs and hoteliers along with the valuable help of students at the School of Tourism are preparing the first Food & Wine Festival on the island where the first table was laid for a stranger – Odysseus (Ulysses).
The Festival is being co-organized by: the Ionian Islands Regional Authority (Corfu area), the Municipality of Corfu, the Ionian University, the Chamber of Commerce, the Hoteliers Union, the Federation of Tourist Accommodation Businesses, the Association of Corfu Travel Agencies, Corfu Port Authority, the Association of Restaurant and Related Professions, the Chefs Club and the Professional Tourist Guides Union of the Ionian Islands and Western Greece. It is being held under the auspices of The Greek National Tourism Organization (GNTO) and FedHATTA. The Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation (ERT) is Media Sponsor.
The aim of the festival is to promote the local cuisine as a major part of the history and culture of Corfu and the Ionian Islands – as is well-known, the first recorded reference to the social aspect of gastronomy was in the hospitality offered to Odysseus on the island of Phaeacians.
