Portugal: Italian Cuisine Week kicks off

(ANSA) - LISBONA, 15 NOV - The Week of Italian Cuisine in the World returns to Portugal from 16 to 22 November for the ninth edition of the annual event dedicated to Made in Italy food, which this year takes place under the theme 'Mediterranean Diet and Roots Cuisine: Health and Tradition'. For the Italian Embassy in Lisbon, it will be an opportunity to propose a week of programming entirely dedicated to great Italian cuisine, between the affirmation of traditions and an encounter with the present. Special attention is paid this year to the so-called 'cuisine of the roots', i.e. the traditional Italian recipes reinvented in the world by emigrants, which is also the theme of the digital book 'I racconti delle radici' (Roots' Tales), produced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in collaboration with the prestigious food culture magazine 'La Cucina Italiana'.
    The launch of the platform 'Map of Italian Gastronomy in Portugal' marks the beginning of the event: more than 50 Italian restaurants, from the north to the south of the country, at the invitation of the Embassy have chosen a special dish that they will present to their customers during the Week. The celebration of Made in Italy at the table starts in Viseu, where Italy will participate in the World Cheese Awards 2024, from 15 to 17 November, with a stand organised by the Italian Trade Agency - ITA in collaboration with the Embassy.
    The initiative also includes many food and wine and cultural events that will have many Italian guests at the centre - including the anthropologist Marino Niola, an expert on Mediterranean food cultures - and Portuguese guests, such as the foodblogger Filipa Gomes, known to the general public for her gastronomy programmes on the TV channel 24 Kitchen, and the popular humorist Hugo Van Der Ding, who specially designed the event poster with the dictates of our cuisine that have become global imperatives in mind.