The municipality of Santa Úrsula shows between today and tomorrow a selection of the best products from the Canarian countryside. The fifth edition of the Santa Úrsula Quality fair, organized by the City Council with the collaboration of the Canarian Institute of Agrifood Quality (ICCA), will bring visitors the best wines, cheeses, gofios, oils, old potatoes and honey from the islands. There will be about twenty exhibitors installed on the auxiliary road of Las Palmeras avenue, which will open today between half past six in the afternoon and midnight, and tomorrow, from ten in the morning to midnight.
The mayor of Santa Úrsula, Juan Acosta (AISU), highlights that this fair, which returns after two years of hiatus due to the covid, will serve to “promote the best genre from the Canarian countryside in the same space, where visitors will be able to discover, taste and acquire the most select products of the Archipelago”. The objective of this municipal initiative is that “attendees take away a pleasant memory of the experience associated with the consumption of traditional foods made in the Canary Islands.”
These two days will bring to the public foods that have won awards in the AgroCanarias contests this year, such as wines, cheeses, gofios and oils, and others of certified quality, such as honey and old potatoes. The fair had in its last edition, in 2019, an attendance of some 2,000 people.
In Santa Úrsula Quality seven restaurants of the municipality will also be represented, and as many local wineries with wines with denomination of origin. The price of each tapa will be 3 euros, while 1.5 euros will be charged for each glass of wine. The establishments will offer different creative elaborations, “whose base will always be island agri-food products,” according to the Councilor for Agriculture and Commerce, Janira Gutiérrez (AISU).
The Tacoronte-Acentejo, Valle de La Orotava, Valle de Güímar and Abona wine denominations of origin will be present at the exhibition, as well as the Association of Artisan Cheese Producers of Tenerife, the Association of Potato Harvesters, the Association of Beekeepers of Tenerife (Apiten) and the Canarian Beekeeping Association (Abecan). In addition to good gastronomy, in Santa Úrsula Quality there will be no lack of music. Among the parallel activities, such as the 3rd Regional Championship of Canary Leg Cutters (tomorrow, from 2:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.), live cooking shows, tastings, children’s cooking activities (tomorrow, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. :00 am) and bouncy castles (all day tomorrow) and workshops to learn about certified products participating in AgroCanarias.
