Designed for the most impatient fans cous cous back for the fourth consecutive year, the Cous Cous Fest Preview, a weekend designed to do, "anticipate" an advance of Cous Cous Fest and to select the chef who in September will be part of the Italian team in the race during the XV International Festival Cultural Integration.
"Conceived as a show able to trawl the Cous Cous Fest in September - says Matteo Rizzo, mayor of San Vito Lo Capo - Preview today has become an autonomous event, capable of delivering tourism in the territory of some importance . Year after year has emerged as an appointment to wait and that is coming into our city old and new visitors. After all - he concludes - is a taste of warm weather, good food and clean sea, what awaits visitors in the following months and then in September. "
So, from 1 to June 3, San Vito Lo Capo host the culinary competition titled "Vote for the chef Cous Cous Fest", which will participate in all the Italian chefs ready to try their hand at preparing dishes made with semolina peace . This challenge, which has grown over the years, ending with the engaging chef arrived from Sicily but especially imposing on the national scene with the presence of chefs from different regions of Italy, such as Emilia Romagna, Piedmont and Tuscany.
By tradition, the winner will be elected to a jury, composed of about eighty people who intend to join, and a technique which has five judges plus the President. This role has been confirmed, for the second year, Paul Marks, wine journalist and author of "Identity Greedy", the first Congress of Italian cuisine.
The chefs in the race to compete for a place in the Italian team that will compete in the next edition of Cous Cous Fest - scheduled for 25 to 30 September 2012 - for each round must prepare one hundred portions of cous cous and a flat-choreographed presentation. The three phases of the semi-finals will take place on 1 and 2 June, while the final Sunday, June 3, in Piazza Santuario in the eyes of all visitors and tourists.
To participate you must file an application no later than May 5, by downloading the registration form from the website www.couscousfest.it, where there is also the competition notice.
Cous Cous Fest Preview, however, is not only culinary competition. During the weekend, in fact, visitors can participate in workshops with food tastings by local chefs, organized in the main square of San Vito Lo Capo and open to the public, but also attend a time dedicated to the knowledge of the main fish species of the area , on display and then auctioned at the fish market. At the end of the day, however, the program will be full of free evening concerts given by internationally acclaimed artists.
"Doubly lucky tourists who visit San Vito Lo Capo in three days of Cous Cous Fest Preview - says Maria Cusenza, Tourism Councillor of the municipality of San Vito Lo Capo - who, besides enjoying the beauties of our territory, becomes a participant and protagonist of the event. "
In San Vito Lo Capo, also returned two inevitable events. Every day, from 12 to 24, will have the chance to taste the cous cous tradition of San Vito, in conjunction with Sicilian wines, buying a ticket of 10 euros, while from 17.30 to 24 will open the exhibition village, by way of Savoy, where you can taste and buy the best products typical of the Sicilian tradition.
Source: trapani.blogsicilia.it
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