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The MAIN EVENT of #EATMANTUA will be held on Friday 23rd June and Saturday 24th and will include the launch of the new edition of  "Cucina Mantovana di Principi e di Popolo" by Gino Brunetti, pseudonym of Don Costante Berselli, and a day dedicated to traditional Mantuan sweets and pastries.
 

Friday 23rd June 2017: CUCINA MANTOVANA DI PRINCIPI E DI POPOLO

#Eatmantua - Free entry until exhausted seats are available

6.00pm / CORTILE D’ONORE PALAZZO TE
LAUNCH of the new edition of the 1963 book that inspired the events: 
"Cucina Mantovana di Principi e di Popolo"
Speakers:
Stefano Baia Curioni, President Centro Internazionale d’Arte e di Cultura di Palazzo Te
Stefano Benetti, Director Musei Civici
Giancarlo Malacarne, mantuan historian
Mattia Palazzi, Mayor of Mantua
 
7.00pm / CORTILE D’ONORE DI PALAZZO TE
LA CUCINA MANTOVANA E L’EUROPA (Mantuan cooking and Europe)
Host: Davide Paolini
Speakers:
Giancarlo Malacarne, historian, La cucina mantovana nel tempo (Mantuan food through the years)
Massimo Montanari, lecturer at the University of Bologna, Storia e cultura dell’alimentazione (History of food and its traditions)
Gualtiero Marchesi, owner of Marchesi restaurants, La cucina italiana del ‘900 (Italian food in the 20th century)
Antonio Santini, owner of Dal Pescatore restaurant, La cucina mantovana contemporanea (Contemporary Mantuan food)
Davide Rampello, East Lombardy food committee, Il futuro per cucine locali, quali la mantovana, in un contesto europeo (Future of local cooking, such as that of Mantua, in a European context).
Luca Marchini, president JRE-Jeunes Restaurateurs d'Europe Italy, I giovani e la cucina italiana (The young and Italian cooking)
 
7.30pm / CORTILE D’ONORE PALAZZO TE
A feast inspired by the book “Cucina Mantovana di Principi e di Popolo” and organized by Accademia Gonzaghesca degli Scalchi, with wines from Consorzio Vini Mantovani.
Download the full text Cucina di Principi e Popolo by Giancarlo Malacarne

Saturday 24 June 2017: FESTIVAL OF TRADITIONAL MANTUAN SWEET PASTRIES AND CAKES

FROM 10.00am ONWARDS / FRUTTIERE DI PALAZZO TE
FESTIVAL OF TRADITIONAL MANTUAN SWEET PASTRIES AND CAKES
Buffet with selection of traditional Mantuan sweets made by the local patisseries.
#EatMantua - Free entry until the available seats are exhausted
 
11.00am / SALA POLIVALENTE
THE UNIQUENESS OF MANTUAN SWEETS IN THE HISTORY OF ITALIAN CAKE MAKING
Pastry and cake making and their recent success.
Host: Davide Paolini
Speakers:
Iginio Massari, master cake maker and founder of the Accademia dei Maestri Pasticceri Italiani
Gaetano Martini, owner of Il Cigno restaurant
Carlo Dal Ceré, pastry chef at La Deliziosa 
Giancarlo Malacarne, historian

#EATMANTUA / IL GIARDINO DEI SAPORI A PALAZZO TE (The Garden of Savours at Palazzo Te)

From 25 August to 10 September at Palazzo Te a video installation will narrate the history of Mantua's wine and food. An insight into the work of the great interpreters of its cuisine, past and contemporary, will reveal its creative processes and their evolution. We will go on a virtual tour of the kitchens where the dishes are today created and made.

In the garden of the Exedra at Palazzo Te, the Jeunes Restaurateurs d'Europe, the association that brings together the best among the youngest representatives of European gourmet food, will interpret Mantuan dishes with themed dinners, and will also create some original examples of ‘Garden Food’, side by side with the cuisine and patisseries of the Mantuan tradition; all will be accompanied by typical Mantuan wines.

The evenings will be further enlivened by musical events performed by international contemporary musicians, and some original cocktail shows.

Entrance to the Exedra garden will cost 5 Euro and include access from 19.30 to four food areas: Jeunes Restaurateurs d'Europe; samples of Mantua's gourmet food; a selection of Mantuan pastries and cakes, and an area organized by the Consorzio dei Vini Mantovani wine consortium. Concerts and cocktail shows by some of Italy’s most famous barmen are also included in the ticket.
The ticket will also be valid for a free Ea(s)t Lombardy product of the month-based taste at local restaurants adhering to the initiative, until 31 December 2017.
 

August

SATURDAY 26 AUGUST FROM 7.30pm
  • MANTUAN AND EUROPEAN GARDEN FOOD + COCKTAIL SHOW   
  • CONCERT
  • VIDEO INSTALLATION
 
SUNDAY 27 AUGUST FROM 7.30pm
  • MANTUAN GARDEN FOOD
  • DJ SET
  • VIDEO INSTALLATION

September

SATURDAY 2 SEPTEMBER FROM 7.30pm
  • TAPE FIVE CONCERT
  • GARDEN FOOD JEUNES RESTAURATEURS D'EUROPE
  • GARDEN FOOD MANTOVANO
  • MATTEO MELARA BARTENDER
  • #EATMANTUA - THE FILM 
 
SUNDAY 3 SEPTEMBER FROM 7.30pm
  • COOKING MUSIC
  • MANTUAN GARDEN FOOD
  • #EATMANTUA - THE FILM
THURSDAY 7 SEPTEMBER FROM 7.30pm
  • MANTUAN GARDEN FOOD
  • #EATMANTUA - THE FILM
  • FESTIVALETTERATURA 2017 EVENTS - "Una festa di parole in musica"
 
FRIDAY 8 SEPTEMBER FROM 7.30pm
  • MANTUAN GARDEN FOOD
  • #EATMANTUA - THE FILM
  • FESTIVALETTERATURA 2017 EVENTS - "Una festa di parole in musica"
 
SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER FROM 7.30pm
  • GARDEN FOOD JEUNES RESTAURATEURS D'EUROPE
  • MANTUAN GARDEN FOOD
  • #EATMANTUA - THE FILM
  • FESTIVALETTERATURA EVENTS -  "Una festa di parole in musica"
 
SUNDAY 10 SEPTEMBER FROM 7.30pm
  • FOOD ENSEMBLE: COOKING & SAMPLING
  • MANTUAN GARDEN FOOD
  • #EATMANTUA - THE FILM