SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, January 19. (EUROPA PRESS) –
Tenerife, through the Cabildo y Turismo de Tenerife, will be present again from January 29 to 31 in a new edition of ‘Madrid Fusión’, the most important international gastronomic summit of all those held nationally.
The island will show the best of its products and wines in an immersive stand of 300 square meters, to which is added a ‘Wine Tunnel’ of another 75 square meters, and where more than fifty activities will take place in its three areas. differentiated between workshops, tastings, breakfasts, lunches, snacks, tastings and presentations.
Likewise, it will have a presence in the ‘Taste Spain’ area, where the country’s main gastronomic destinations meet and where it will have a complete program of product tastings and tastings.
Furthermore, within the island proposal, the municipalities of Santiago del Teide, Santa Cruz, Candelaria, San Miguel de Abona and Puerto de la Cruz will have a special role with companies from the gastronomy value chain of each of them, as well as such as hotels and the Tenerife Bartenders Association.
The Tenerife delegation will be made up of a hundred professionals including producers, cooks, pastry chefs, front of house staff, sommeliers, restaurateurs, winemakers, technicians from the six designations of origin of Tenerife wines, the Primary Sector Area of the Cabildo and Tourism of Tenerife. Tenerife, as well as students and teachers from different branches of gastronomy and hospitality, specifically, from the IES San Marcos and the CIPF Virgen de Candelaria.
At a press conference, the vice president and Minister of Tourism, Lope Afonso, valued Tenerife’s presence in ‘Madrid Fusión 2024’, highlighting his commitment to sustainability, kilometer zero products, the circular economy and local products as tools. of commitment, quality and promotion.
Furthermore, he pointed out that “Tenerife awakens emotions, appetite, interest and also recognition, professionals in the sector have managed to ensure that in recent years the name of the island is associated with success in the form of academic and commercial recognition, being in the main guides and fairs of the sector”.
Together, he continued, “we place Tenerife at a point of excellence, our offer is increasingly richer.”
The island will attend with the largest stand in its history of 300 square meters.
IMMERSIVE SCENARIO
This large space, a meeting place for national and foreign visitors, will be the setting, in an immersive triple and simultaneous format of restaurant proposals and workshops (edible landscapes, volcanic origin and liquid aromas).
Tenerife will also star in space and activities in ‘Wine Edition’, preceded by the great success of past editions, with a ‘Tenerife Wine Tunnel’ of 75 square meters digitized, with totems and screens, and, like every year, inaugurating the ‘Wine Edition’ programming with a masterful tasting of Tenerife Wines in which great wines from the island’s six DOs will participate.
Added to this will be the impact of the master presentation by chef Diego Schattenhofer (1973 Taste, Playa de las Américas), recent new Michelin star and whose presentation, on the stage of the main auditorium, ‘Unpublished edible perfumes’, will constitute one of the milestones of the congress due to its unprecedented, revolutionary and global content, according to a note from the Cabildo.
On the other hand, and at the Polivalente, chef Alberto Margallo (San Sebastián 57, Santa Cruz de Tenerife), will develop unique haute cuisine proposals with Anaga’s three stellar products: limpets, prickly pears and yams.
MOJOS COMPETITION
Lope Afonso also highlighted the ‘Mojos and Dishes Competition’ made with mojo harmonized with ‘Wines of Tenerife’, now in its fourth edition, and which will feature, as in previous editions, with well-known national chefs, some of them with Michelin stars. .
At the presentation press conference, the vice president and Minister of Tourism, Lope Afonso, was accompanied by the Minister of Primary Sector and Animal Welfare, Valentín González, and the CEO of Tourism of Tenerife, Dimple Melwani.
Valentín González recalled that the best local products from Tenerife will be present at ‘Madrid Fusión’.
“We will have the six regulatory councils of Tenerife wines, olive oil, honeys, cheeses, and tropical fruits. All participants will make a great effort in this exhibition and we will go hand in hand with the city councils, in this case with Santa Cruz of Tenerife, Candelaria, Santiago del Teide, San Miguel de Abona and Puerto de la Cruz, which will play a leading role in the fair,” he noted.
Melwani, for his part, who are going to ‘Madrid Fusión’ with “many new things.”
“This year we brought one hundred professionals from here, with a large representation of the hotels. The positioning of gastronomy in Tenerife is increasingly important, and this year we want to take an important leap. That is why we continue to focus on requalification in training On a professional level, in 2024 we will take gastronomy to different international markets,” he highlighted.
