ANGELES CITY- Some 100 food industry businesses will join the first Northern Luzon food festival dubbed as Big Bite to be held on Oct. 18 to 20 at the MarQuee Mall Park here, in an event organizers claimed as “the biggest culinary celebration of Luzon this year.”
The festival will be participated in by the country’s top “culinary icons”, including celebrity chefs Rolando Laudico, Lillian Borromeo, Sabrina Artadi, and Sau del Rosario. A preview of the event proved sumptuous Thursday to invited media folk and bloggers who were treated to lunch featuring food items to be highlighted during the threeday food festival.
“Big Bite’s outdoor food market will have over 100 vendors representing Pampanga, Metro Manila, Baguio, Bataan, Bulacan, Cagayan, Ilocos, La Union, Nueva Ecija, Tarlac, Pangasinan, and Zambales,” organizers noted. Organizers said “people will enjoy all the great offerings from all these provinces in just one destination.
Big Bite will be host to a number of excitingevents like cooking demos, a cooking competition among culinary schools, the best heirloom recipe contest food eating contests, food sampling and so much more.”
The Asian Food Channel, the Department of Tourism, the Department of Trade and Industry, the Manila North Tollways Corp., Cignal Digital TV and Mercato Centrale Group are co-sponsoring the festival with Marquee Mall.
The organizers said festival visitors “will find every delicious and tasty product that the participating regions have to offer,” as they cited “native and traditional delicacies, an area for fresh produce, another for cooked and baked food.”
“From Pampanga alone, we are sure to have foods such as sisig, chicharon, halo- halo, ensaymada, and kakanin,” they added. They also said that schools offering culinary courses will participate in the cooking contests.
Some of the schools include the Philippine Women’s University, Systems Plus College, Angeles University Foundation, NorthPoint Culinary Academy, and Bulacan State University.
