17 years of tradition/ The "Fair of sweets, agricultural products, livestock and beekeepers" is organized in Maliq

2024-09-25 19:31:00, Qyteti im CNA

17 years of tradition/ The "Fair of sweets, agricultural products,

For the 17th year in a row, Maliqi has organized the "Fair of sweets, agricultural products, livestock and beekeepers". A celebration that for more than a decade has become a tradition for the municipality of Maliqi, where housewives and farmers come together in the production of sweets and other products cultivated by them.

Between the organization of songs and dances of the area, a variety of sweets that have been inherited from generation to generation in Malika families, as well as other products such as grape brandy, winter zahireta, lakrori in saç and the much-loved pancakes, were promoted at the various stands. from everyone.

The hands-on ladies who continue to cook with a special desire and passion, say that they have brought different cakes for all citizens and visitors, thus promoting not only Maliq as an area, but also the values ??that the ladies have in cooking.

"I have cooked a cake that I always make for my children's birthdays and today I prepared it for the citizens of Maliqi. Maliqi has been known for sugar for a long time, the women of Maliqi have been making lokum and pledge. Now the cake process has been modernized but as you see, there is everything. Today, the citizens of Maliq are for rent. At least in Maliq, they don't sell sweets, they give them away."

"I cooked rhubarb, we have a tradition here in Maliq. It contains butter, flour, starch and cornmeal. I inherited it from my mother, who was old and cooked by being an example here in Maliq. I am a native of Maliq and always I cook for Maliq. We also have other desserts like ballkava, hasude, pengjire.

"At the sweets fair organized by the municipality of Maliq, we prepared sweets starting from baklava, revania with nuts, trileche, pengjire, kompekai. We also made fried pancakes, oil pancakes, and many others. At the same time, among them we also brought zahirets of the winter, also the agricultural and livestock products produced by our farmers. In recent years, there has been demand from tourists, especially for the cabbage with two noodles, with onions and tomatoes. Among other things, the brandy that is produced from grapes that our farmers have produced."

For the mayor of Maliqi, Gëzim Topçiu, this fair is very important for the promotion of the area with organic products like in no other area, while he appreciated the housewives and farmers for their contribution today in what they gave in this fair.

"We are continuing a 17-year tradition, with autochthonous, organic products like no other area, from Moglica, Gora and the entire field of Maliqi. In all the stands you will find products of our manual housewives but also of the hardworking farmers of the field of Maliqi, the area's livestock farmers, beekeepers. A comprehensive fair that I think is to be appreciated, it definitely has its flaws that need to be improved from one year to the next, but I want to thank all the farmers and housewives for their contribution. them and what they give at this fair. Everything they give is for the citizens to try, everything is free, so they also have the opportunity to create a market by liking the products."

The municipality of Maliqi focuses on the further development of cuisine and its promotion throughout Albania, while the mayor Topçiu has shown that the institution he leads has prepared 2 very important projects for the area of ??Gora related to the creation of a center for zahireta , and for the village of Pirg regarding the construction of a market for farmers who until now sell their produce on the street.

"We are thinking of doing two projects, one of which we are finalizing for the creation of a zahir center in the area of ??Gora. The project has been drawn up and we believe that next year the work will have started, while the second project is about the basin of The stack that we want to turn into a green oasis, where we will eliminate farmers' street sales and everything will be sold in this organized market, even if there will be minimal or zero costs, which will be covered by the municipality of Maliqi. "

The special guest at this fair was the mayor of the municipality of Corinth in Greece, Nikos Stavrelis, who gave his impressions regarding the activity, while not forgetting to mention the good relations that the two municipalities have and the finalization of the twinning between them.

"We are a city that has a long-standing relationship with the municipality of Maliq. We will try to finish the twinning of the city of Corinth that we have been looking for for so many years and I believe it will come true. This is the purpose that we came here today, to celebrate with I look and I am very glad that there are so many people, let's try your products. I thank the mayor of Maliqi and I hope that we will meet soon in Corinth and finish the work of twinning. We have come a group of 45 people, who there are two types of associations, that of musicians and the association of a village that can speak and understand Albanian. We will try to have the best time. We have dancers and songs and we will enjoy it."

The 17th edition of the "Fair of sweets, agricultural products, livestock and beekeepers" has created a beautiful atmosphere in the flower garden near the "Workshop" square in the town of Maliqi. In addition to the exhibition of the products of the area, the residents of Maliqi and other districts of the district also enjoyed traditional music and dances, while the artistic group of the municipality of Corinth joined the celebrations./ CNA