Italian Food Fair / Gelato Making course / Beer Tasting / Wine Tasting / Gala Dinner / Thematic Banquet / Talk “History of Italian Cuisine in Singapore” / Film Screening / Special menu at Italian restaurants
Venues:
National Museum (Salon and Gallery Theatre) / The Fullerton Hotel / Isetan Scotts / Palate Sensations / Angra Wine & Spirit Importers Warehouse / Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel / Shangri La Hotel / Various Italian Restaurants
The International Week of Italian Cuisine reaches its second edition with the aim of promoting Italian culinary traditions and food-and-wine connoisseurship as a distinctive trait of Italian identity and culture under the sign of: quality, sustainability, culture, food security, the right to food, education, identity, territory and biodiversity
Talks, meetings with the chefs, food-and-wine tasting, dinners, food and beverage commercial promotion programme, film screenings are some of the activities organized with the purpose of promoting Italy's most renowned export in the world: the extraordinary Italian taste.
The Week is coordinated by the Working Group established under the Protocol of Understanding for Maximising Italian High-Quality Cuisine Abroad, chaired by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in close cooperation with the Ministry of Agricultural, Food and Forestry Policies (MIPAAF).It is organised through a cooperative effort of all the public and private actors representing the Italian cuisine in the world: institutions (MISE, MIUR, MIBACT, Regions), ICE-Agency, ENIT, universities, the network of Chambers of Commerce, trade associations, cooking schools, the network of certified Italian restaurants and food-and-wine and design companies. Point of reference for the more than 1000 activities scheduled is the network of 296 diplomatic and consular offices and Italian Cultural Institutes, which coordinate the initiatives locally.
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
26 October - 9 November:
- Festival Italian @ Isetan
18 - 19 November and 6 -7 December:
- Gelato Making Course
20 - 26 November:
- Special Menu’ at “Ospitalità Italiana” restaurants
- Collesi Beer Tasting
21 - 22 November:
21 Nov - Thematic Banquet by the Italian Academy of Cuisine
21 - 22 Nov - Innovation Days
22 November:
- Talk “History of Italian Cuisine in Singapore”
- Simply Italian Great Wines Asia Tour 2017
- Piemonte & Truffle Wine Dinner
23 November:
- Gala Dinner by the Italian Chamber of Commerce in Singapore
- Film Screening “Senso”
