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Saturday, March 11, 2006

Cultures worldwide without leaving the fairground

Today at five afternoon the Trobada de 2nd Pobles is inaugurated, in which 25 associations of Ibiza and Formentera participate Up to thousand liters of beer were unloaded yesterday and placed in the stand of the fairground for the members of the House of Murcia de Eivissa and Formentera. Like them, the volunteers of the 25 associations which participate in II the Trobada de Pobles (that is inaugurated at 5 ocklock this afternoon) worked hard yesterday in decorating their stands and having everything prepared for the encounter. Some worked in the fairground and others, in their own houses, cooking the typical plates of their land that will offer to the people in the Trobada. One of the partners of the House Andalusian of the Pitiüses, for example, it prepared yesterday pestiños. Those of the House of Murcia, in addition to the beer of their land, assured to be cooking broth with meat balls, Murcian salads and a called dessert flowers. Also the inlays removed from the boxes just arrivals of the independent community, salt meats and wines to which will invite. "What we want is to rehabilitate the Murcian name", commented Enrique Garcerán, one of the members of the regional house. The president of the Association of Uruguayan Residents, Alda Yurramendi, assures that the Spaniards from Ibiza who visit stand of this association will not find anything that is to them very strange in which refers to gastronomy. "Many of plates come from the Spaniards and there are not many differences. The alfajores, for example, are similarities, that fill up of milk candy ", explains the president of the association. Yurramendi emphasizes that this year they have put special attention in emphasizing the cultural aspects of his country, like Literature, specially the writer Mario Benedetti. "We are a country very unknown because we are hidden between two monsters: Argentina and Brazil ", comment the president who emphasizes that at the moment in Ibiza and formentera she has around 900 Uruguayan. The members of Philippine Union, of their part, were very worried to finish the volcano that will preside over its stand in II Trobada de Pobles. In addition, as it could not be of any another way and since they already did in the edition of the last year, they serve his traditional spring rolls.