The winners of the La Copa Visit Panama 2012 Culinary Contest were announced. The event was sponsored by the Panama Tourism Authority as part of the Panama Gastronomic International Fair.
Moments of tension, excitement and joy were felt at the close of the 2012 Panama food fair.
Before the star of the soap opera “Joe 'The Legend'”, Jair Romero, returned to Bogotá, Colombia, yesterday, he went to the Miraflores Visitor Center of the Panama Canal.
The activity fulfilled the expectations of the members of the Association of Orchidologists and the fair board. The three-day event was full of entertainment, with singing; la saloma, a barking style of yodeling; performing la décima, a ten-stanza poetry accompanied by instruments, and other folkloric activities.
Earnings from tourism activity has an 18% growth. From January to July, tourist spending in Panama reached $1,291 million, an increase of 197.2 million more than during the same period in 2011. This indicates that Panama has the most productive tourism in the region. The number of visitors in the same period grew by 5.4%. It is significant that at the Tocumen International Airport, the main port for Panamanian tourism, the growth was at 16.6%, with 872,184 visitors in these last seven months.
An event that activated all of your senses was the Gastronomy Fair, which was held this past weekend. That special skill for preparing delicious food was combined with the talents of art and creativity. To make those delicious desserts or decorate the foods requires not only knowing how to cook, but also having a creative and artistic touch. Could be seen Butter sculptures by the chef Yuri Cifuentes were on exhibition. It took him three weeks, with the help of his students, to sculpt the art forms, using 70 pounds of butter.
