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"Women's energy" will be the focus of this year's Gourmet Festival, which will welcome more than 100 exhibitors, including 35 restaurants and seven pastry shops, between May 24 and 26 at the Millenáris event center in Budapest.

    According to the press release, the gastronomic event, which features the best-known representatives of Hungarian catering and a varied selection of food, desserts and drinks, focuses on a central theme every year: while last year the new generation was the focus, this year the rich offer will be dominated by female energy.

   This year, three special envoys will join the event, and dozens of professionals will be on show at Millenáris during the festival, where the best restaurants, patisseries and wineries will be showcased. In addition to the food, a varied drinks menu, coffee specialties, cocktails and champagnes await visitors.

   The release stressed that more and more women are getting involved in gastronomy, both at home and abroad, far beyond the boundaries of home baking and gastronomic blogs.

  "At this year's Gourmet, we want to show how female energies have been unleashed in the long male-dominated domestic profession in recent years," the statement quotes Richárd Nemes, chief organizer of the MBH Bank Gourmet Festival, as saying.

    According to the statement, this year's ambassador of the festival is Zsóka Fekete, who raises mangalica on her own farm, whose main profile is the production of handicraft products. Gabriella Ormós, who gave up a career in communications to live under the spell of sourdough, will also be a Gourmet ambassador, and her main mission is to teach as many people as possible how to bake delicious and healthy bread. Another ambassador of the event is Zsuzsanna Ötvös, who became a gastroblogger and then a pastry chef as a PhD student in Classics and Philology.

    The final day of the event falls on Children's Day, so the organizers are dedicating this day to families. According to the information, the festival is free for children under 18.