Italian Cuisine Weeks

In Vietnam, Italian Cuisine Weeks was celebrated with rich calendar of related events stretching from the 12th November to the 13th December.

The Italian Cuisine Week in the World is an initiative involving the whole network of 296 diplomatic and consular missions and Italian Cultural Institutes to promote the Italian culinary culture, which is at the core of the Mediterranean diet and so central to the Italian identity and lifestyle. Over a thousand events was be organized around the world during this week, to promote the Italian cuisine and its regional varieties.

For this edition, over 10 events were featured, led by the Italian Embassy in Hanoi and the Consulate General of Italy in HCMC, organized in cooperation with ICHAM and with the support of local partners in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang and Nha Trang. They included masterclasses with Italian chefs and sommeliers, food and wine tastings and pairings, cultural events and exhibitions, cooking classes, Italian products fair in deli stores, thematic lunches and dinners with Vietnamese celebrities and Italian protagonists of the culinary scene in Vietnam.

Last but not least, dozens of Italian restaurants all over Vietnam, from Hanoi to HCMC, from Da Nang to Nha Trang, from Vung Tau to Da Lat, presented for the occasion authentic and original Italian specialties and menus, at an affordable price, to be made available to customers from 12th to 29th November 2020.

The ambition was to raise attention on the Italian cuisine and products, their connection with conviviality, hospitality, lifestyle and healthiness, but also on the enrichment driven by exchanges between Italian and Vietnamese culinary traditions. The activities were also a way to pay homage to the entrepreneurs and the workers of the Italian restaurants, a sector that strongly contributed to our economy and gave prestige to the Country and is now greatly suffering the consequences of the pandemic.