There is great anticipation in Carloforte for the concert on the seafront, by “The Kolors”, one of the highlights of the “Girotonno” program, edition number 22. The event is scheduled for Saturday evening. The “Girotonno” will come to life tomorrow with the World Tuna Competition, the beating heart of the event, organized by the Municipality of Carloforte in collaboration with the Feedback agency, which celebrates the red tuna race with a party that will liven up Carloforte until Sunday 2 June.
"Girotonno is much more than a celebration," underlines the mayor of Carloforte, Stefano Rombi. "It is a moment of identity, in which Carloforte tells its story to the world through tuna, a symbol of a thousand-year-old culture that has its roots in tuna fisheries, fishing, traditions and our history. This year we will have the honor of hosting chefs from eight countries who will compete with passion and creativity, giving life to a real show of flavors and culinary contaminations. Every dish tells a story, every technique an ancient knowledge, every flavor a journey. And on this journey, Carloforte is proud to be the meeting point."
The “contestants” – This year, chefs from the Philippines, France, Japan, Italy, Morocco, Spain, Peru and Portugal will compete in the kitchen by proposing recipes based on Mediterranean red tuna. For the Philippines, the chef couple, also in real life, Nicola Mincione and Ann Christine Taglinao, at the helm of Minta, the restaurant that offers Italian-Filipino cuisine in Milan, will be in the kitchen. For France, the competitors will be Éric Tomasso and Elio Genualdo, respectively a culinary consultant and executive chef for Sodexo, a multinational leader in catering services and facility management. Japan will be fielding Takashi Kido, Shaoyang Zhou and Timothy Punzalan, who work at the Kenshō restaurant in Turin. The fourth nation competing is Italy, which competes with Abele Fois, born in Cagliari in 1982, chef at the Birroteca Fermentazioni Spontanee in Iglesias, and Luigi Senes, son of the famous Sardinian restaurateur Vito who, after starting his career in the family restaurant in Sennori (Sassari), the eponymous “Da Vito”, has been leading the kitchen of the restaurant for several years. Morocco competes with Mustapha Hajbi, who has collaborated with important chefs of the Italian gastronomic scene including the starred Pietro Leemann, at the Joia restaurant in Milan. With him in the team is Zahira Fenouri, chef at the Locanda Allevè in Pragelato, where she brings her history, her roots and a gastronomic vision made of authenticity, contamination and passion to the kitchen. Competing for the Peruvian team are Raul Natividad Grados, who works in Rome at the Pacifico restaurant, and Yuri Alor Ocon, with a solid professional background in the restaurant sector.
