Rainbow Towers Food Festival

The Rainbow Towers Food Festival is food celebration platform born out of the need to create an annual event around the Africa Day holiday. The festival allows the public an opportunity to celebrate food, and its differences across cultures and borders, as food is an integral part of being African. ^[1]

Objectives

The notion behind the event was that food brings people together. Launched in 2014, the event was a partnership between [[]Rainbow Towers]], Feel Good Zimbabwe and Carl Can Cook. The inaugural festival ran from 23 to 25 May and featured celebrity chef Siba Mtongana,celebrity Chef Carl, and popular stand up comedian Carl Joshua Ncube. The programme included Braai Master competitions, cooking classes, cocktail making demonstrations, demonstrations from Siba and Carl, and standup comedy every night. ^[2]

• Growing the food culture as a business in Zimbabwe. This was to be achieved through exporting indigenous foods like our different types of sadza.
• Making food a tourist attraction as people are interested in learning more about Zimbabweans through its food. ^[3]

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