The pandemic of coronavirus requires for the second year in a row neighborhood of La Florida, in La Orotava, to give up the traditional street distribution of its emblematic stew. The San Antonio Abad Association Festival of Traditions, chaired by Victoria Hernández and in charge of organizing this massive event, confirmed yesterday that they will opt again, as in 2021, for house-to-house distribution of 350 boxes with the ingredients of this stew so that the stew is prepared again in the privacy of homes on the last Saturday of January.
The events, reduced due to the high incidence of coronavirus cases, will begin on January 25 and 26 with talks on liquors and old canary potatoes. Both will be in the neighborhood association and will have capacity control. Thursday 27 is organized the XLII San Antonio Abad Wine Contest, organized by the Regulatory Council of the Valle de La Orotava Denomination of Origin, the Villero City Council and the Tenerife Island Council.
On Saturday, January 29, the date on which the pot was to be distributed in the street, there will also be no livestock fair. The stew at home will begin to organize between Thursday 27 and Friday 28 with the distribution of the boxes around the neighborhood. In total, it is planned to distribute 350 boxes with the basic ingredients of this stew: cabbage, chayotas, bubango, beans, potatoes and gofio, among others. There will also be no magician dance or pilgrimage.
the village mayor, Francisco Linares (CC), and the district councillor, Delia Escobar (CC), received at the town hall the representatives of the San Antonio Abad Festival of Traditions Association, Patricia Perez and Loida Pacheco, who explained to the local government the details of the work carried out, the scheduled events and the format of the boxes that will be distributed so that Florida smells like a pot on the 29th.
