III FIESTA DE LA PITAYA
For the third time, the Sinaloan Institute of Culture and the Sinaloan Gastronomic Culture Conservatory AC combine efforts to carry out the third edition of the Pitaya Festival, in order to give visibility and value to this wild fruit that forms the identity of the Sinaloans. In this playful way both institutions contribute to the rescue, safeguarding and preservation of our cultural and natural heritage, particularly of this food resource that is at risk of disappearing.
The pitaya is the fruit of some cacti, like the red pitayo (stenocereus montanus) of arborecente form, native of the American continent. It produces a globose-oboid fruit, juicy, wrapped by a more or less thin covering, in its interior fleshy pulp of red or purple color and numerous black seeds, very small. Of sweet flavor very pleasant to the palate. With high nutritional properties and
To this plant family – cactaceae – belong about 2000 species that live in tropical and subtropical regions (arid and semi-arid zones). The state of Sinaloa has about 1500 species of these vascular plants and 44 of them are native to the state. Among them is the species Laphocereus, known in Sinaloa as senita, sina, sinita barbona, musa, bush-like with cylindrical branches of 5 and 6 ribs that produces small flowers and has a variety of pitaya fruit. This shrub (sina, sinita) that produces the pitaya, abundant in all the Sinaloan geography, particularly in the plains or slopes of the hills, banks of the streams and in the coastal dunes, gives the name to Sinaloa (Nahuatl: “sina “-cactus, fruit, pitaya-” loa “-round shape or ablonga-).
By conferring our identity, these cacti are natural and cultural patrimony of the state and must be protected by laws, avoiding their felling or destruction.
Here is the commitment of both institutions: the Institute of Culture and the Sinaloense Conservatory, to take actions to value and protect a product of nature that is part of our ancestral food heritage, characterized by its validity, its historical continuity and It gives us cultural identity.
The Fiesta de la Pitaya (third edition) will take place next Thursday, June 4, starting at 4:00 p.m. at the Art Museum of Sinaloa MASIN, with a program of lectures, gastronomic sample of preparations based on the delicate fruit of the pitaya and artistic expressions and there will be sale of fresh pitayas offered by the collecting communities of Arroyo Grande, Sandalona syndicate of this municipality of Culiacán. FREE ENTRANCE.
GENERAL PROGRAM
OPENING CEREMONY. In charge of the authorities of the state and municipal governments, of the Conservatory of Gastronomic Culture Sinaloense A.C.
THE PÍTAYA IN ART, LITERATURE AND HISTORY, by Adolfo Rodríguez Canto, guest of the State of Yucatán.
PITAYAS, PITAHAYAS, TUNAS, XOCONOSTLES AND OTHER MEXICAN MANJARES, by Biol. Carmelo Cortés García. Botanical Garden of Culiacán.
2.- DIALOGUE BETWEEN PITAYA COLLECTORS AND INTRODUCERS TO THE CULIACAN MARKET
Guests of Arroyo Grande, Sanalona Sindicatura
Guests of the Municipality of San Ignacio
CANIRAC DELEGATION CULIACÁN.
3.- GASTRONOMIC SAMPLE OF PREPARATIONS BASED ON PITAYA. RECIPES PREPARED BY CHEF AND GASTRONOMY STUDENTS THAT SUPPORT THE CONSERVATORY. TASTING OF NEAR 30 PREPARATIONS BASED ON PITAYA. (the attending public will be able to acquire fresh Pitayas)
4.- PICTÓRICA AND CRAFTS SHOWS, by plastic artists and artisans of the city.
5.- ARTISTIC EVENT: MUSIC AND DANCE
NOTE: Prior to the day of the festival, cultural activities and cooking workshops are organized in the Arroyo Grande collection communities and among the primary schools of the municipality, whose results are displayed during the development of the festival.
INSTITUTIONS AND CONVENING AGENCIES
Conservatory of Gastronomic Culture Sinaloense A. C.
Sinaloa Institute of Culture
City of Culiacán
CANIRAC- Culiacán
Institute of Gastronomic Arts and Sciences
Botanical Garden of Culiacán
