"Hot" Rieti, international chilli pepper festival on the way
Rieti - The "hottest" festival of the summer is on the way: the "Rieti cuore piccante (hot hearted Rieti)" event returns, from August 23, and until Sunday 27. Also this year, the chilli pepper international trade show will bring together enthusiasts of this fine spice. The seventh edition of the event is an occasion to discover the world of chilli peppers and everything that revolves around it. Stands, tasting, conventions, exhibitions and even flash mobs focusing on the "King" arrived from the Americas and on the "spicy" concept, examined from multiple perspectives.
All set in Rieti's historic center, with its characteristic narrow streets, beautiful piazzas and viewpoints overlooking the Sabina countryside, where hundreds of stands will be set up.Every evening, the program includes cooking shows with chefs from the Etoile Academy, founded by Rossano Boscolo, who has trained over 30,000 chefs and confectioners, creating and cultivating most Italian talents who work in the different haute cuisine, catering and teaching sectors. Visitors will be able to see the field-catalog at the 'Carlo Jucci' experimental center and admire over 800 varieties of chilli pepper, from all across the world, at the Cloister of S. Agostino. This year, Mexico and Hungary are the guest countries and for the first time the 'Sabino' variety, created to meet the Italian chilli pepper request, will be available for sale.