Area 5
M.I.C.A.S.
CoRFiLaC established “MICAS”, Mediterranean Institute of Culinary Art of Sicily, as a research center of the eno-gastronomic heritage of Sicily and the Mediterranean basin. Its purpose is to study the resources’ origins, to promote the traditions, history and culture of territory.
Ancient Sicily, center of the world, constitutes the emblem of culinary tradition. It is the mother country of the most celebrated gastronomists of history, such as Archestrato from Gela, who lived in 300 B.C.
Sicily is an Island that was able to integrate the knowledge of different cultures with its own, treasuring it and handing it down to the next generations, even through those delicious recipes that today characterize Sicilian tables.
Culinary courses are organized for opinion leaders, gourmets, journalists, and lovers of the gastronomy world. The real meaning of these short specialized cooking courses lies in the role that the raw materials play, and in the art of valuing the culinary art in its historical context.
The objective is to contribute to the rebirth of the territory through the rebirth of taste.
During these courses, called “cultural gastronomic workshops”, famous chefs, researchers, grandmothers and experts organize culinary lessons.
Knowledge of the organoleptic, aromatic and nutritional qualities of the main ingredients used, integrated with historical, cultural aspects and the exchange of learning experiences between great experts of gastronomy, have allowed the exalting of origins and traditions of those ingredients used in the Mediterranean cuisine.
MICAS in particular studies, from a sensory and aromatic point of view, the most important ingredients that exalt food matching with the Historical Sicilian cheeses.
MICAS' Courses:
- Grandmothers’ Culinary School: culinary school for gastronomy lovers, in which grandmothers will show and promote Sicilian culinary traditions.
- Lab Taste: a cultural travel to discover dairy Sicilian products. Lab taste are guided tasting in which experts will explain the sensory and organoleptic distinctiveness of Historical Sicilian Cheeses, coupled with Sicilian wines and artisanal beers.
- Events on request
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