(MENAFN- The Peninsula) The sixth Qatar International Food Festival (QIFF), organised by Qatar Tourism Authority (QTA) and Qatar Airways (QA), will host its first Qatari culinary training course.
The Live Cooking Theatre at the festival will feature a course on how to prepare local dishes, providing visitors a chance to experience authentic examples of Qatar's rich cultural heritage.
The course will provide professional hotel chefs in Qatar with information and guidelines on how to prepare traditional and innovative Qatari and Gulf dishes.
It will be held under the supervision of Qatari cuisine expert Chef Aisha Al Tamimi and renowned Kuwaiti Chef Fawwaz Al Omim at Museum of Islamic Art Park from 2pm to 4pm from March 25 to 28.
By organising the course, QTA seeks to diversify options provided for visitors by the tourism and hospitality sector.
QTA will develop its hotel classification system to ensure that all hotels in the country include traditional Qatari dishes on their menus.
Each hotel will be able to send one chef as its representative to the course, and any of its chefs on any other day of the festival. It is hoped that this will allow as many chefs in Qatar to become familiar with the local cuisine. Chefs will also be required to wear their hotel-branded uniform throughout the training.
The course is part of activities to be hosted by QTA to encourage hotels to incorporate domestic culinary culture into their menus to provide tourists a taste of delicious local dishes.
Al Tamimi is a celebrity in the field of Qatari, Gulf and international culinary arts. She has published a series of cookbooks, Mawaed (Banquets).
An etiquette and hospitality expert, she is the host of cooking shows and programmes on Qatar Radio and Qatar TV and a writer of culinary articles in Qatari newspapers.
She has attended culinary and etiquette courses in the UK and Saudi Arabia and was the host of 'Mawaed' programme on Qatar TV aired for four years in a row.
Al Omim's passion for cooking started during his university studies in Miami, Florida, where he gained experience thanks to the city's ethnic diversity.
He started work by seeking to invent his recipes for the Khaleeji cuisine every day and providing catering services to customers.
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