1. WHEN? SEP 24-25, Gorky Park.
Seasons-projects.ru. Entrance ticket - 500 RUR.
WHO? Anyone who loves to taste and cook great food.
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| Autumn in Moscow Festival - 100 metre long table |
Seasons "Autumn in Moscow" - Lectures in a marquee.
Green lawns, stacks of hay and warm blankets - an ideal setting in the middle of Moscow to get comfortable with a plate on the grass or at a 100 metre long table, placed alongside the Gorky Park pond.
The festival pursues educational goals, therefore will present several large marquees, where visitors will be able to try: cheese, bread, pastry, soups, salads desserts and jamón. Prepared in great varieties and sometimes in front of the customers, it is heaven for food lovers - everything is for sale and enjoyment.
For those who prefer science behind cooking, it is possible to visit a lecture marquee, where top chefs are going to explain how to choose jamón, cheese and chocolate, present a master-class dedicated to selecting and cooking meat and will prepare some chef-d'oeuvres for tasting.
2. WHEN? SEP 30-OCT 02, Dorogomilovsky market, Moscow
Slowfood-ulitka.ru project. Entrance - FREE
WHO? Anyone who loves organic, fair-trade, rural food.
Borsch and pilaff in Moscoviya.
Organised by the Russian representative of the international ecogastronomic association "Slow Food", this food festival is putting Russian farmers on stage as main characters. Various regions are going to supply their specialties:
• Mosow region - cottage cheese, milk and sour cream;
• Rocky Altay - herbal honey, pine nut infusions, syrups;
• Vladimir Monasteries - milk, kefir, ryazhenka (fermented baked milk), yeast-free bread and pies;
• Kalmykia - lamb and horse meat;
• The Far East regions - game and other hunter's prey.
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| Dorogomilovsky market, Moscow |
Special guests are going to prepare dishes from ex. Soviet Union republics: Armenian khinkali (Caucasian dumplings), Ukrainian borsch, Uzbek pilaff. The only rule is to cook from products, brought to the market by the farmers. A few famous chefs are going to conduct master-classes about lamb, duck, pilaff, mushrooms, apples and shashlyk (Russian for barbecue), as well as prepare some fancy dishes like lamb fillet cooked in vacuum and pancakes with pear jam and celery.
3. WHEN? OCT 01-31, Moscow restaurants
The aim of the last food festival is to attract people to Moscow restaurants and encourage them to try especially designed menu-sets, carefully prepared by the chefs to best communicate the character of the restaurant and the chefs' style. There's a price cap of 2500 RUR (£53) per menu-sets.
Alongside expensive restaurants, the project includes new gastronomic establishments with more democratic price level and respectful cuisine. Two world-renowned chefs from "The World's 50 Best Restaurants" list (Carlo Cracco and David Scabin) are going to be touring in some restaurants. And all the food-sampling lovers can take part in at least 2 themed dinners: OCT, 04 (3 Italian chefs are going to prepare 3 dishes the colour of the Italian flag) and OCT, 25 (3 Russian chefs are introducing the audience to the contemporary Russian cuisine).
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| Moscow Gastronomic Festival Invitation |
The aim of this festival is not just to taste great foods, but to be able to compare and review Moscow restaurants. Visitors will be able to fill in a "Review Form" at every restaurant taking part at the festival, or on gastronomic.ru website. The organisers hope Moscow restaurants are going to receive objective and straightforward reviews that will benefit the industry.
The most important objective of Slow Food festivals is to popularise slow food philosophy, learn to appreciate farmers' work, bring back shopping at local markets and return local produce to Muscovite's tables. With free food sampling and master-classes the organisers hope to reinvigorate old culinary traditions and interest in sustainable consuming.
