RIMINI, Italy – The Queen of international pastry-making will be crowned at the 37th SIGEP. Her qualities will be extremely high professionalism, work standards, creativity and excellent taste, great ability to grasp and apply innovations without forgetting tradition. In short, the spotlight will be on The Pastry Queen World Pastry Championship held every two yeas and reserved for ladies. The competition will be staged at the International Exhibition of Artisan Gelato, Pastry, Confectionery and Bakery production from Saturday 23rd January, with the awards ceremony on Sunday 24th January 2016, from 5:00 to 6:00 pm.
The ring hosting this ´all-pink´ challenge will be the Pastry Arena (Hall B5), an area at SIGEP dedicated to great pastry-making events, which highlights the sector´s traditions and new trends, but which also becomes a great talent workshop, hosting creativity and experimentation.
Last year, heats were held all over the world to select contestants for The Pastry Queen, at which this year´s participants were selected and in Rimini will show their skills and expertise when facing various tests. The contestants are from Japan, Australia, Taiwan, India, Russia, France, Italy, Brazil, Croatia and the Balkans
They will be required to prepare a modern tart, a coffee-flavoured cream dessert, an individual portion of chocolate dessert, a mini bijou pastry and a sculpture in sugar and pastilliage.
The theme on which they will have to base their creations will be ´The Art of Dance´, taken as a perfect example of rigour and at the same time grace and attention to details.
The panel of judges that will assess the works is made up of the ten managers of the contestants and will have as its honorary president Iginio Massari, panel president Cher Harris (USA) and international panel president Miguel Moreno (Spain).
The Pastry Queen is one of the Pastry Events organized at SIGEP in collaboration with CAST Alimenti and with the patronage of AMPI (Academy of Italian Master Pastry Chefs), Relais Desserts and Conpait.
Pastry Events´ Partners: Debic, Besozzi Oro and Valrhona; Event sponsors: Hausbrandt; Title Sponsor The Star of Chocolate: Decosil; Technical Sponsors: Bragard, Bravo, DitoSama, Cascina Italia, Irinox, Sacar, Sagi, Selmi Chocolate Machinery, Silikomart professional, Sirman.
SIGEP 2016 AT A GLANCE
Dates: 23 – 27 January 2016; Organizers: Rimini Fiera SpA; edition: 37th; frequency: annual; classification: international; admittance: trade members only; hours: 9:30 am . 6:00 pm, last day 9:30 am . 3:00 pm (3:00 . 5:00 pm only with online tickets); business unit manager: Patrizia Cecchi; project managers: Gabriella de Girolamo (gelato), Giorgia Maioli (pastry, bakery, coffee); exhibitor info: tel. +39 0541 744521 fax +39 0541 744772; Web site: www.sigep.it
