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Ubud Food Festival 2017 features world-class culinary experts
The third Ubud Food Festival (UFF) will be held on May 12-14, 2017, and will be attended by culinary A-listers from Indonesia and around the world.
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Colorful fish and vegetables can be purchased at Bali's Ubud market. (Shutterstock/File)
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he third Ubud Food Festival (UFF) will be held on May 12-14, and will be attended by culinary A-listers from Indonesia and around the world.
This time around, the theme of the event will be the culinary exploration of Bali, which has just been crowned the world’s most beautiful island by American travel website TripAdvisor. Titled “Every Flavor is a Story,” this year’s installment of the annual culinary festival, held in the Ubud area, will be largest in the festival’s history.
“UFF offers plenty of culinary events for visitors to gather around, eat, drink, party and share their knowledge of cuisine […] Indonesian cuisine has reached an international level of fame and so have its traditions and the practitioners,” says UFF founder and director Janet DeNeefe.
The confirmed guest stars for this year’s event are celebrity chefs Farah Quinn, Marinka and Bara Pattiradjawane. Also attending are local culinary legends, Sisca Soewitomo and Bondan Winarno.
(Read also: Ubud among world's best destinations in 2016: Report)
“If everything goes as planned, we will also invite President Joko Widodo’s personal cook. Culinary expert William Wongso, who, at last year’s event, launched his book, Flavors of Indonesia: William Wongso’s Culinary Wonders, will also be attending and I hope he will bring another surprise for us this year,” adds DeNeefe.
Other guests include Locavore’s Eelke Plasmeijer, who recently made it onto the Asia’s 50 best restaurants list, dessert expert Will Goldfarb of Room 4 Dessert in New York City, Chris Salans from Ubud, Mosaic institution, Michelin-star chef Nic Vanderbeeken of CasCades Restaurant and Hujan Locale’s chef Will Meyrick.
With more than 100 speakers from Indonesia and abroad attending, the three-day event will be filled with programs such as Think, Talk, Taste discussion Masterclass sessions, cooking demos and movie screenings.
“Cuisine is a cultural product that has long been known for its importance to Balinese taste and tradition. Our Wonderful Indonesia product portfolio has three pillars: 35 percent Nature, 60 percent culture and 5 percent man-made. Cuisine takes up to 30 percent of the culture portfolio,” explains Tourism Minister Arief Yahya.
“Please come and join the Ubud Food Festival! It’s going to be impressive and tasty,” he adds. (asw)
