The producers will bring directly to the tables of the French the best of this renowned gastronomy: from the most typical specialties to the rarest dishes.
Italy on the Table is also an opportunity to learn more about certain regions of Italy thanks to the participation of numerous Regions from the Peninsula, which will provide information on possible stays, tourist routes, summer destinations, etc.
The grand sales exhibition entirely dedicated to the excellence of food production and the promotion of the Italian territory is once again here with a program rich in events: conferences, tasting workshops, exhibitions, performances, and live demonstrations…
For this fourth edition, the City of Nice will celebrate Italy for an entire week:
– Starting Tuesday, May 27th, Italy Week will kick off with a taste education program reserved for schools: 22,000 children will receive a special “Italy in the cafeterias” meal, with a meal prepared by SODEHXO that will delight no fewer than 105 dining points in Nice. On the menu: “tomato-mozzarella” starter, the famous and unbeatable pasta bolognese accompanied by breadsticks, and to finish, a nice slice of Neapolitan ice cream. Enough to create young fans of Mediterranean cuisine!
– Thursday, May 29th (and until June 2nd), the sales exhibition will open its doors on the Promenade des Anglais, between the Ruhl Casino and the Nice Opera, with more than 100 stands open to the public free of charge from 10:00 AM to 9:00 PM: a unique opportunity to discover and directly purchase the “must-have” of our transalpine neighbors’ gastronomic tradition.
– Also on May 29th, renowned professors from the University of Nice Sophia-Antipolis will take turns in a series of high-quality conferences offered for free at the Nucera Library in central Nice from 2:00 PM to 7:00 PM on the themes:
– “From the virtuosity of artists’ banquets to fasting: itinerary on artists’ tables in Renaissance Florence” by Véronique Mérieux
– “Futurist culinary art” by Serge Milan
– “The ‘sacro risotto di Gadda’ by Carlo Emilio Gadda” by Manuela Bertone
– “Gastronomy in contemporary Italian politics” by Jean-Pierre Darnis
– “French borrowings from Italian and vice versa in the culinary field” by Sarah Labat
– “The great feasts” of Italian cinema: selected excerpts by Stefano Leoncini
– A space specially dedicated to taste will be created to offer conference-tastings (by prior registration) in which producers will explain the origin and benefits of the products savored on site.
– On June 2nd, “Italy on the Table” will beautifully conclude the week with the celebration of the Italian Republic Day.
Finally, parallel events will be organized in the largest restaurants of the French Riviera and the Principality of Monaco throughout the Italian week; chefs will indeed propose to reinterpret Italian cuisine and rediscover Mediterranean flavors through various deliciously atypical menus.
