The autumn food and wine event promoted by the Municipality with the support of the Sardinia Foundation returns to Neoneli Wine, Fregula and Cassola.
From Friday 13th to Sunday 15th October, the small center in Barigadu hosts three intense days of tastings, gastronomic workshops, in-depth meetings on the local economy, and then music, photography and initiatives for the little ones. Unmissable moments in the varied program of the event are the cooking competition dedicated to fregula, the characteristic durum wheat semolina pasta of Sardinian cuisine, which this year features students from five Sardinian hotel institutes, the cellar festival and the lunch at basis of typical Neelese dishes.
It starts on Friday 13 October at 9am at the "Maria Lai" primary school with an initiative for the fourth and fifth classes: the painter, designer and author of children's books Fausto Gilberti presents his illustrated book "The ogre who ate the children". Another commitment for him in the afternoon: at 5pm he meets teachers and librarians at Casa Cultura to talk about the great contemporary artists told to children. The two events are organized by the Lughené cultural association.
Also at 5pm, but at the Salone Corrale, the conference "New opportunities for the Barigadu" begins: in dialogue with the sociologist Nicolò Migheli, the anthropologist Alessandra Guigoni, curator of the project "Fregula Istuvada, Cassola and Ortau di pecora nella gastronomic tradition of Neoneli", the dairy technical consultant Bastianino Piredda, curator of the project "The basics of artisanal cheesemaking", the president of Slow Food Cagliari Raimondo Mandis, local development expert, the president of Slow Food Terre Oristanesi Elisabetta Casu, the teacher of the Provincial Adult Education Center 4 of Oristano Alessandra Giarrusso, the tourist guide of Allai Experience Mara Cossu, the owner of the Home Restaurant L'Agrifoglio of Ardauli Tonino Cocco, the owner of the Veghu company of Bidonì Marcello Contu, the owner of Neoneli's Bar Istentu Irene Magari, Alberto Flore, owner of the Agriturismo da Lino in Samugheo, and Stefano Vinci, owner of the Ilighes agricultural company in Sorradile.
Also at the Salone Corrale, for all the days of the event, the exhibition "Cheers cannonau. A toast lasting 3000 years" will be open to visitors. Friday ends in the evening in Piazza Italia with a "mutos competition": the protagonists are the extemporaneous poets Costantino Casula from Ortueri, Giovanni Mura from Tonara and Mario Macis from Meana Sardo, accompanied by Matteo Casula on the accordion. The competition, starting at 10pm, is introduced by the ethnomusicologist Marco Lutzu, professor at the University of Cagliari.