Petronio Álvarez will go until August 18.
Petronio Álvarez is a cultural sample, not only from the musical field, of traditional cuisine or native drinks, also from enterprises.
The Petronio Álvarez Pacific Festival is not only the most important scenario for traditional sounds in this region of the country, It is also a cultural encounter where gastronomy has a leading role. This year, More than 60 stands gather the culinary wealth of the Pacific, showing that tradition goes beyond fish and seafood.
In these spaces You can find native drinks such as the Viche and its derivatives, along with preparations that rescue ancestral knowledge, In addition, the festival opens the door to small businesses and entrepreneurs who arrive from different corners of the country to Cali to show their products.
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In the tour of the mecato pavilion, Heidy Salazar, a carrier of tradition, has arrived from Olaya Herrera, Nariño, to publicize the Naidí, This product of your region that according to the place where your name is cultivated. Some know him as Asaí and is cataloged as a superfoodbeing high in antioxidants, in omegas and being anti -cancer.
“Naidí is a fruit that is very fashionable because it is exotic, rich in antioxidants and with which you can make a variety of products. We have a flagship product, which is the ‘nucley of Naidí’ and, after making that fucco, We take out the pulp and that pulp we make juice, we make beaten, cake, ice cream, rice with milk, All those products that you can find at this time in Naidí Pacífico, ”said Heidy.
This fruit is only produced twice in the year, so a crop and adequate extraction should be achievedto house a reserve for the production of the rest of the year.
“What we handle in the El Guabal neighborhood is a distribution point for small entrepreneurs who want to use the naidí pulp to make other elaborations such asjuice, juice, shake that is very fashionable to train with him, Because, in fact, it is a natural protein, which, combined with banana or with another fruit, potentiates a lot, ”he added.
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Once Petronio ends, Heidy expects her entrepreneurship to grow, because thanks to her “we also help 14 Afro -Indigenous families who favor the manual production of our territory. The importance of these families is that They know how to get a product that is chemical free, which is natural. For us it is super important that people can consume the true naidí, a product of zero chemicals, zero sugars and that is zero contaminated. ”
Petronio, in its essence, thus become a meeting point where music, cooking and entrepreneurship come together to highlight diversity and cultural valuebecause in these 5 days hundreds of people have arrived to enjoy.
Source: Integrated information system
