The Cous Cous Fest in San Vito lo Capo

The 24th edition of the Cous Cous Fest, the international festival of cultural integration, has started on Friday 17 September in San Vito Lo Capo.

After last year's stop, due to the health emergency, the town returns to host the festival, until September 26, under the banner of "Together again" but reshaped in its format, in compliance with the anti -Covid regulations.

It was 1998 when, at the end of the summer, the town of San Vito lo Capo (in the province of Trapani) hosted for the first time an event dedicated to cous cous, a typical dish of the territory, very common in the Maghreb area, but almost completely unknown in the rest of Italy.

The aim of the event was to celebrate a poor ingredient, rooted in the Mediterranean area, through an international competition capable of bringing together different peoples, histories, traditions, cultures and religions.

Thus was born the Cous Cous Fest, a review of Mediterranean food and wine that has made San Vito Lo Capo the world capital of cous cous, hospitality and multiculturalism.

An adventure that began twenty-three years ago of which no one would have ever imagined such a surprising evolution; an opportunity to celebrate brotherhood between peoples but also as an instrument of cultural and tourist promotion for an area of ​​astonishing beauty.

More than two hundred chefs from seventeen different nations have met in San Vito lo Capo since that first edition and over one hundred and fifty recipes have been presented, over the years, to the world championship of cous cous which today hosts ten delegations from four continents.

Edition after edition, the program of the event has expanded to include not only food and wine events but also cultural, musical and entertainment events.

This is how San Vito lo Capo becomes an obligatory stop for the most important starred chefs but also for the big brands, the most prestigious newspapers, the most renowned food and wine experts and many prominent personalities of culture and the world of entertainment, with more than 150 artists who have performed on the Live Show stage over the years.

Also this year the menu is rich: ten days of appointments on stage between cooking challenges, cooking shows and tastings in a new location, the Garden of the Sanctuary which can be accessed by showing the Green pass. No concerts to avoid crowds but also some news, such as the RistoFest: the possibility of tasting cous cous comfortably seated in the restaurant. It will be a special edition - as stated by the mayor of San Vito lo Capo - because, in addition to being the edition of the restart, the event will return to the location where it was born: the Garden of the Sanctuary of San Vito martyr, a place of great suggestion and beauty where tastings, cous cous championships and cooking shows will take place.

The Cous Cous Fest is an event that, welcoming chefs from all over the world, brings together different worlds in the name of cultural integration, extinguishes conflicts and misunderstandings, embraces Palestine and Israel, brings together good food, fun and great emotions .