26 ^ National Porcini Mushroom Fair…
Albareto 29-30 September and 1 October 2023
Art, Cooking show and tradition in the cuisine of Alta Val Taro
PROGRAM:
FRIDAY 29 SEPTEMBER
18.00 Inauguration 26 ^ National Porcini Mushroom Fair of Albareto
Church Square / Via della Repubblica
Opening of the food and wine market
Inaugural procession with the Albareto Band Corps
Porcino d’Oro delivery
7.00 pm Le Marche nel Calice (participation fee € 20.00)
The 2023 edition of the National Porcini Mushroom Fair of Albareto, at the central tensile structure in front of the Town Hall, opens a tasting of Marche bubbles, all to be discovered. In the company of the Sommelier Paolo Marlat and Mosè Ambrosi, of Cantina Fontezoppa (Civitanova Marche – MC) will be offered for tasting the four wines that will accompany the three days of the fair
7.30 pm tasting at the fair… tasting in company
Parco dei Pini, Restaurant Pavilion
The big restaurant at the Fair opens its doors with a decisive evening. Buffet with local products, from the mushroom
Porcino with typical cold cuts, traditional dishes …
Cost of a fixed buffet menu € 20.00
9.30 pm Taro Taro Story
The after dinner at the Fair, opens the evenings with the Taro Taro Story, for an evening revival but not only …. music, fun and let’s go wild …
From 17.30 to 24.00
Food and wine market on via Repubblica
Inauguration of the Fair with the Albareto Band Corps
Opening restaurant “special Night”
Music evening (until 02.30)
Tasting of bubbles at the show cooking pavilion
Opening of the Mushroom Museum
Charity Lottery
SATURDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
Piazza G. Micheli pavilion cookingshow
11.00 am Emilia Wine Experience
Free event
The Roads of Wines and Flavors of Emilia renew the project of rediscovery of the products of our
territory, bringing together once again the gastronomic and oenological excellences of Parma and Piacenza.
2.30 pm La Mesciua
Free event
A gastronomic story that speaks of popular wealth, wisdom, culture and experiences. Through the flavor of traditions, guided by representatives of the Brotherhood of Mesc-ciüa, we will take a journey to discover the Luni soup par excellence.
5.00 pm a pasta… in the woods
Free event
Cooking the territory can be an exciting game, especially for an Italian Cooking teacher! Bianca Maria Bellei, AICI teacher, and member of the Professional Gastronomes Association, will be the protagonist of a cooking show that will accompany you to discover new taste combinations, made with the best ingredients of the Apennines and the companies of the Alte Valli Biodistrict.
6.30 pm Apennines-Marsala: round trip
Cost of participation € 10,00
The job of a gastronome is to master and make available to others the science and gastronomic culture he holds. Thanks to the latter it is able to create invisible bridges that will make you travel through the palate. Paolo Tegoni, Giorgio Zinno and Nerio Pellegrini of the Professional Gastronomi Association will present a curious and unusual tasting, which will be combined with mountain cheeses and “sea” wines.
Maria Luigia Hall town hall
09.45 am The Foods of Crinale , 2200 years of history, culture and food and wine between Parma and Lunigiana free event The meeting is part of the Parma-Luni 23 project
11.00 am From Albareto to the Constituent Assembly
free event
75 years after the entry into force of the Italian Constitution. Presentation of the book by Nicola Carozza published by Rubbettino “Angela Gotelli. Christian Democrat, constituent, forerunner of welfare policies”
Speakers: Davide Riccoboni -Mayor Albareto, prof. Egidio Banti and the author of the book prof. Nicola Carozza moderates the Councillor for Culture of the Municipality of Albareto Giovanni Gatti
5.30 pm “New challenges for the future of mountain agriculture”
free event
The Andrea Borri Foundation continues its attention to mountain agriculture together with the University of Parma and with the collaboration of experts and entrepreneurs. Agroecology, evolutionary populations, microclimates: these are the topics that will be addressed for the analysis of a complex situation such as that of agriculture in marginal areas. New topics and new challenges that even recent climatic events require us to know and deepen.
Via della Repubblica – Palazzo Berzolla
11.15 am The Fair in the Woods Beech Fountain
Free event
Lesson in the woods with mushrooms from life at the Beech Fountain (transfer to the area with own means): we talk about mushrooms in the woods for mushroom farmers and passing patrons. We bring the fair into the woods in its “hunting” ground and not vice versa.
3.30 pm Inauguration of the Mycological Exhibition
16.00 Mushrooms on display
Lesson with fresh mushrooms from life with the expert Nicolò Oppicelli
5.30 pm 365 Mushrooms: a year of wonders
Presentation of the book
Fair Area
2.30 pm The Porcino… closely
Free event
The Porcini mushroom of Borgotaro, delight of the table, reveals its secrets… under the microscope! Its spores, its
fabrics and its characteristics invisible to the naked eye presented by an expert Mycologist to know more
Up close the king of the forest. It will be an opportunity to deepen the biology of fungi and their relationship with
other inhabitants of the forest. A visit inside a giant mushroom will also allow you to know the many
animals that live inside it and understand the extraordinary role of fungi in the health of the forest.
But above all…. There will be plenty of space for questions and curiosities. Curated by Daniela Visentini. For families with
children from 6 to 13 years old. Organized by the Food Museums Association of Parma —
4.30 pm Parade in concert
Free event
The musical complex “Città di Collecchio” parades in concert through the streets of the Fair, in a space between music and folklore, in the name of sociability and solidarity. Organized by the Band of Albareto
9.30 pm Stillhouse Band – Live Concert & Dj Set
An emerging band from Valtaro, they participated in the “Nice International Film Festival”, the independent film festival held every year in Nice a few days before Cannes. To bring the Parma mountain to the premiere of the Nice event was in fact the young rock group “Stillhouse”, who was able to participate in the event having written the soundtrack of the film “The Modern Way”, the film directed by Giuseppe Monticciolo and scripted by Jake Henderson. The film, which received six NFF nominations, went on to win Best Picture and Best Actor in an English-Language Feature Film.
SUNDAY 01 OCTOBER
Piazza G. Micheli pavilion cookingshow
10.00 am BIMBY Cooking Class
Free event
One of the appliances most appreciated by chefs and used in haute cuisine, but also one of the
Multifunctional kitchen most loved by cooks and home cooks, what are we talking about? BIMBY of course! Together with the team
of Vorwek experts will learn how to make the most of the most versatile, innovative and sustainable electronic helper that we
Is.
11.30 am In Parma there is… Saffron
Free event
The cultivation of the yellow gold of gastronomy is spreading more and more among farmers but knowing how to produce it
With awareness and art it is the business of a few. Among them are Francesco Magni and his wife Olimpia, two farmers
special that in their small farm, located in the Bassa Parmense, cultivate the precious flowers with care, dedication and
ancient methods. At the end there will be a small taste by the Professional Gastronomi Association.
3.30 pm Perfumes… to eat
Free event – reserved for accompanied children (+5)
From birth we are able to experience the world thanks to our senses and our instincts but growing up we transform
These qualities in fundamental tools to define ourselves and our tastes. secrets and curious stories about our relationship with food together with Giorgio Zinno of the Professional Gastronomes Association.
4.30 pm Autumn in the farmhouse
Free event
If you traveled with memory, you would remember the scents and flavors
of autumn? In the company of the gastronome and chef Marco Furmenti you can learn and rediscover techniques and secrets of the most traditional culinary preparations. Cooking Show and tasting by the Professional Gastronomi Association.
6.30 pm Final toast with the institutions
Free event
Greetings and thanks from the Fair Authority and the Mayor Davide Riccoboni. See you at the 2024 edition and conscious toast by the Professional Gastronomi Association
Children’s Area – Parco dei Pini tentnsi
From 10.30 to 12.30 Watercolor mushrooms
Copy from life of mushrooms to make one or more watercolors to be used for the cover of a notebook or work to keep with you or give away During the workshop we will give some simple rules to best reproduce a subject from life and its coloring. Each participant can then create his own work to be pasted on the cover of a notebook provided by us.
From 15.30 to 18.30 The footprints in the woods
Workshop to make the stamp of a forest animal footprint to be printed on shoppers, paper or a t-shirt brought from home After talking with the children about the footprints they usually find in nature, everyone will choose which one to draw and engrave on a rubber stamp Then everyone will create their own prints of impressions on paper or fabric.
Via della Repubblica – Palazzo Berzolla
16.00 Mushrooms on display
Lesson with fresh mushrooms from life with the expert Nicolò Oppicelli —
3.00 pm A tour of the Museum in the company of mycologists
Guided tour of the Porcini Mushroom Museum together with expert mycologists who will be able to tell the story, the territory and the Porcini Mushroom
Fair Area
7.30 pm Piano bar with MusicaLive
The traditional “closing” of the Fair on Sunday evening in a moment entirely aimed at joy, fun and friendship
