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Educational centers in France will offer a Dénia Menu to its 8.000 students

May 04 from 2022 - 11: 53

Arròs a banda for 8.000 schoolchildren, wine tastings from the Marina Alta, an exhibition of “Bancalet” brand products and a prominent space in the Spanish Pavilion. Dénia will be present, and in a very visible way, from May 6 to 15, at the Tours Fair, one of the most important commercial meetings in France. As a Creative City of Gastronomy of the UNESCO Network, Dénia is the guest city of the gastronomic village of the fair and the international space, which this year is dedicated to Spain.

Mayor, Vicent Grimalt, will speak on Saturday the 7th at the official opening ceremony of the fair, together with the mayor of Tours, Emmanuel Denis, the Minister of Tourism of the Spanish Embassy in France, María José Gómez, and the managers and organization managers. In the institutional representation of Dénia also appears the Councilor for Culture, Raúl García de la Reina.

Dénia's stand will occupy 25 square meters in the Spanish Pavilion and will be staffed during the 10 days of the event by personnel from the Office of Innovation and Creativity and the Department of Tourism. In addition to offering information about the city and its tourist and gastronomic offer, there will be a permanent exhibition space for products from the Marina Alta that are part of the pilot experience of the “Bancalet” brand. At the stand there will also be tastings of traditional dishes, which will be prepared by students of the Cooking and Gastronomy Cycle of the Institut Maria Ibars, directed by Professor Vicent Almela.

The Fair of Tours is one of the five largest and most important in France. It occupies 50.000 square meters of space and around 700 companies exhibit their products and services. Apart from the commercial stands, it has a wide gastronomic area and leisure facilities and attractions. In the 2019 edition, some 350.000 visitors passed through the fair.

The cities of Tours and Dénia coincided in the PART-HER project, where they worked together with five other European cities and territories in the identification and citizen valorization of their tangible and intangible cultural heritage. Tours invited Dénia, as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy, to have a prominent presence in the international pavilion that they were going to dedicate to Spain, just as they had done with Parma the year focused on Italian gastronomy.

A "Dénia Menu" for schools

A total of 8.000 boys and girls from the educational centers of Tours will have a special "Menú Dénia" in their school canteens on Friday, May 6, the first day of activity of the fair. The menu will be prepared by the Central Kitchen of Tours, an establishment that daily supplies the menus of the 58 public schools in the city, the nurseries and a municipal dining room. The preparation and elaboration will be coordinated and supervised by Vicent Almela, professor at the María Ibars Institute, who has also prepared the menu that will be served: Valencian salad, arròs a banda and sweet coca with citrus fruits.

For the “Dénia Menu” service, tablecloths have been printed with information and drawings about the city and its gastronomy. They are easy-to-read messages that provide basic information about the history and environment of Dénia (the castle, the Montgo, riuraus), local products (prawns and oranges) and traditional cuisine (rice or cocas).

The “Bancalet” offer

Dénia's stand in the Spanish Pavilion will present throughout the fair a varied sample of the agri-food production of the Marina Alta. The producers and products that participate in the experience to introduce the regional identification mark "Bancalet", promoted by the Office of Innovation and Creativity, will be represented.

A wine tasting of the Marina

A selection of wines made in the Marina Alta will be tasted by French experts and guests at a tasting organized by the Instituto Européen de Histoire et des Culturas de la Alimentacion (IEHCA), a public institution that promoted the inscription of French Cuisine as Intangible Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO in 2010. The act is parallel to the fair and responds to an express invitation from the organizers. The tasting will take place on Monday 9 at Villa Rabelais, a historic building, former hotel, which is currently the headquarters of the International City of Gastronomy and the IEHCA of the Tours region.

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