On August 25, from 12:00 to 22:00, the Food Festival was held in Gorky Park. The last Saturday of the outgoing summer gave the guests of the festival 10 hours of excellent mood and excellent appetite. The entrance ticket cost 800 rubles, food and drinks were paid separately.
The Food Festival made it possible to appreciate all the charm of the native cuisine, to consider curious particulars in the general culinary context, to try something unique, original and original. It took place in the open air and was, perhaps, the most "delicious" event of the month.
At the festival, one could taste a meat burger from the Ferma at Home store, combining it with Dmitrov's corn, manchego sauce and lemonade from Astrakhan watermelons. There was also boar pate, homemade adjika, strawberry jam. All of these products are environmentally friendly and safe.
The intellectual butcher Ivan Shishkin, chief of Delicatessen, held a master class on cutting pig carcasses. After spending an hour on the main stage, the owner of the Gifts of Nature fast food van went to cook paella.
The event featured Eva Solo gadgets, a multi-award winning kitchen gadget at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In addition, there were Alessi's "fun" crockery and Zak! Designs plastic on sale.
Ginger lemonade, ale, punch and "Rochester Ginger" - Organic Drinks from the Edwards family came to the holiday from Kent. In the heat they were served cold, and in the rain they were warmed up. In both cases, Organic Drinks tasted excellent.
The famous blogger Vlad Piskunov shared his signature recipes. On stage, he cooked millet porridge with pumpkin juice, then in the lecture hall he fried Bengal yogurt pancakes, brewed masala tea, and danced Indian tango. In general, Vlad left behind a lot of vivid and strong impressions.
They did not forget about the recipes for cupcakes, which are so common in Moscow cafes, at the Food Festival. Ekaterina Sviridova from No Name Cupcakes atelier told and showed the guests of the festival how to properly prepare cupcakes and how they can differ.
I visited the festival and the Halloween symbol, but not in the form of "Jack's lamp", but in the form of ordinary butter. The best pumpkin seed oil is made in the Austrian province of Styria. Styrian butter came to the Celebration from the World of Butter store. They did not forget about Siberian cedar and Greek olive.
Goji berries, reminiscent of barberry in taste, are a very powerful natural antioxidant. The Cocoa Bob store sold these wonder berries along with cocoa butter, cocoa beans and macadamia nuts. Siberians "Ayu - spirit of the forest" brought cedar flour, nuts and cake.
Sergey Chernov, who has published many gastronomic books in the publishing house "Chernov and Co", among them the translated dictionary "Larousse Gastronomic", gave a lecture on the topic of Russian-language culinary books. In parallel with this, blogger Julia Savina was preparing chestnut cream soup.
