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Yum Yum Bolivia Food Fest

category dublin | history and heritage | event notice author Wednesday December 03, 2014 15:41author by Loredana Marchi - LASC Report this post to the editors

Two days with screenings, talks, workshops, shows, and stalls related to food from the Andean region in Latin America.

LASC NEW PROJECT YUM YUM BOLIVIA!
13th-14th December. The Dublin Food Co-op, 12 Newmarket Square, Dublin 8
Join the food fest! Two days with screenings, talks, workshops, shows, and stalls related to food from the Andean region in Latin America.

Dates
13th-14th December

Place
Dublin Food Co-op
12 Newmarket
Dublin 8 Irel http://www.dublinfood.coop/

For further information
Tel. +353-1-6760435
www.lasc.ie
events@lasc.ie

First Day
13th December
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12:00 TALK. Free entrance
A delicious story! Irish and Latin American links through the food. Pádraic Óg Gallagher

Pádraic Óg Gallagher earned his BA (Hons) in culinary arts and wrote his thesis on the 'Origins and Peculiarities of Boxty'. President of the Restaurant Association of Ireland, a regular at food festivals through Ireland and internationally, he was nominated Failte Ireland Food Ambassador for Dublin & involved with the Urban Farm Rooftop market garden growing 160 varieties of potatoes among other projects.
Pádraic Óg is passionate about Irish culture and native home cooking. He is a well known master in his field. Nowadays Pádraic Óg Gallagher, chef and restaurateur, is the face behind the newly rebranded Gallagher's Boxty House.

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13:00 DOCUMENTARY. Why did McDonald’s Bolivia go Bankrupt, Free entrance

Language: Spanish, English subtitles
Director: Fernando Martinez
Executive Director: Viviana Saavedra, Leandro Rocha, Hugo Castro Fau, Carlos Azpúrua

Bolivia became the first McDonald’s-free Latin American nation, after struggling for more than a decade to keep their numbers out of ‘the red’. After 14 years, and despite many corporate campaigns and promos, McDonald’s was forced to close in 2002 its 8 Bolivian restaurants in the major cities of La Paz, Cochabamba and Santa Cruz de la Sierra.

Second Day
14th December

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from 13:30 to 14:30 WORKSHOP Become a Bolivian CHEF!
Try the traditional Bolivian recipes for Cuñapes and Zonsos

Enrol for just 5 Euro to cover the cost of the ingredients
(Payment at the entrance)

Cuñapes
Typical food from the east of Bolivia and Brazil. The name probably originates from Guarani language cuna (women) and pé (breast) due to the evocative shape of these small balls.
Typically made with yuca* and fresh cow cheese. Yuca is a starchy root vegetable native to South America, a rich food source for the indigenous people of the arid area due to its important nutritional value.

Zonsos
Grilled mashed yucca with cheese, typical from eastern Bolivia (specifically from Santa Cruz), there are two different ways to prepare it - by baking or grilling. This second technique was used when there was no electricity and zonzo was wrapped around a stick and grilled outdoors.

from 11:00 to 17:00.STALL for LASC
You can purchase a variety of hand crafts from Latin America and most of all you can buy the delicious Bolivian Quinua pastries and Empanadas

Quinoa is a native food plant originally from the Andean region used as food by the Incas and previous cultures. Its consumption has recently increased in Europe and America too due to the raised awareness of its important nutritional value.

Empanada de queso, comes from Spanish verb “empanar”: to wrap in bread. The idea of wrapping a hearty filling in pastry probably is due to the Moors (the Arabs) who occupied Spain for hundreds of years. Due to the large number of Galician immigrants in Latin America the empanadas have also become popular in the region. Empanadas are fried or baked pastries which usually contain cheese and/or beef, potatoes etc.

from 13:00 to 13:30 and from 14:30 to 15:00 LET’S DANCE! free entrance
Andean dancers performing their traditional dances:

Tinkus
This dance is an Andean tradition, originally from the Bolivian region of Potosi.
It began as a form of ritualistic combat to honor the Pachamama (Mother Earth) and is still present in the major festivals and parades in Bolivia, where a battle between two groups is simulated.

Caporal
Caporal is a typical Bolivian dance, very popular in the national festivities. Originally the dance reflected the authoritative power of the caporales (foreman chosen by the Spanish settlers to supervise the work of the slaves).

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