The Massacre of Acentejo rededicate the month of November to promote the consumption of chestnuts, one of its main crops and a product that is the hallmark of the municipality and the region. Between days 18 and 29, the Matanzas City Hall and the Council of Tenerife They organize a program that includes a great gastronomic fair, hiking activities, workshops, a route with special dishes in local restaurants and taverns and a great final castañada, coinciding with November 29, Andrew’s Eve. The events are supported by the Canary Islands Governmentthe Denomination of Origin Tacoronte Acentejo and the Northeast Commonwealth of the Island of Tenerife.
Today is organized Route between Chestnuts; On Wednesday the 16th and Thursday the 17th it is the turn of the chestnut cooking workshops, which will have a day dedicated to mushrooms and chestnuts, and another to traditional recipes that include dried chestnut fruit. On the afternoon of Friday the 18th, the Chestnut Children’s Festival and on Friday the 25th there will be another hiking route. The XVIII Chestnut Gastronomic Fair It will be the protagonist on the 26th and 27th, from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., with live cooking shows, tasting workshops, Acentejo wine, tapas, roasted chestnuts and party music. On that weekend there will again be routes to walk among chestnut trees and discover some of the secrets of this crop. The last act of this month of activities will be on Tuesday 29, with the great chestnut.
A dozen establishments from Matanzas participate in the Chestnut Gastronomic Routein which restaurants and taverns offer during the current month a special dish on their menus in which the chestnut must take center stage.
The 80 places available for the different educational walks are already sold out
The Island Director of Agriculture of the Cabildo de Tenerife, Cayetano Silva (PSOE), highlighted during the presentation of this program “the island’s commitment to the chestnut and to those who, through cultivation, the gastro-commercial sector or institutions, are committed to enhancing the value of this product from our countryside.” The Councilor for Agriculture of the Matanzas City Council, Miguel Angel Perez Pio (PSOE), also valued “the coordination effort between areas that this month’s programming entails, as well as the extraordinary acceptance that some of the planned activities have already received, as is the case of the hiking trails, on which the poster was hung in full within a few hours of being offered. The 80 seats available on the different routes were sold out immediately.
To create greater social awareness about the potential of a crop that was once reviled like that of the chestnut, and about the value of the culture that surrounds it, the Municipality of La Matanza organizes activities with children, since today’s boys and girls will be the best defenders of this product in the future, according to Pérez Pío.
This weekend, Craft and Chestnut Fair in La Victoria
La Victoria de Acentejo celebrates this Saturday and Sunday, November 12 and 13, from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. in Plaza Rodríguez Lara and its surroundings, the XIV edition of the Craft and Chestnut Fair. In the more than 60 stalls that will be present at the show, you can find basketry work with chestnut, fretwork, macramé, natural candles, toys, fashion, dolls, rosettes, uses of paper and cardboard, jewelry and leather goods. Likewise, there will be food stalls with jams, liqueurs, honey, olive oil, cheeses and mojos, as well as chestnut stalls and a large traditional tavern where you can taste Canarian cuisine and good local wine. Throughout the two planned days, different performances by folk groups will take place. On Saturday, the musical groups La Esperanza (12:00 p.m.), Arraigo (4:00 p.m.) and Acoidán (5:30 p.m.) will take the stage, while on Sunday it will be the turn of Guarache (11:30 a.m.), Rondalla of the Third Age Tagoro Victoriero (4:00 p.m.) and Añate (5:30 p.m.).
