As part of the VIII edition of the Week of Italian Cuisine in the World, the first Italian cooking course, promoted by the Italian Consulate in Erbil, Iraqi Kurdistan, was inaugurated.
The course includes a cycle of Master Classes, with a theoretical and an operational part, aimed at a total of 30 young local students (two classes of 15) of the tourism-hotel sector of the Salahaddin University of Erbil, with the aim of promoting some fundamental principles of our culinary art, from pastry to bread-making, fresh pasta and condiments.
The course was created in collaboration with the well-known restaurant in Erbil, Don Gennaro, and is held by the chef Angelo Giannino.
Consul Camerota, in underlining that recent events in the Middle East have necessarily forced us to rethink some external projection activities initially designed for the Week of Cuisine, expressed satisfaction for the enthusiasm with which the offer was welcomed by local institutions and young participants. It is the third consecutive year that the Consulate promotes activities in the field of Italian cuisine and this year the added value we wanted to give is precisely in the direction of training future operators in the sector in the correct use and combination of our knowledge and flavors. Moreover, particularly in recent years, in the Kurdish region there has been a significant spread of Italian restaurants and a growing supply and availability of Italian agri-food products, with growth margins to be encouraged, also in the name of the enormous capital of sympathy and reference that Italy represents for the Region.
