The festival numbers: accredited 619, plus 450 journalists. Friday's matches live streaming

Three, two, one, away. The countdown has ended: with the greeting of the president of the Order of Journalists of Piedmont, Alberto Sinigaglia, will start tomorrow the first edition of Festival of Food Journalism of Turin. On schedule, two days of debates, lessons and off events, open to all and free entry, which will end on Saturday with a series of educational tours for journalists only.

No cooks or recipes, the Festival will certainly talk about food and nutrition, but from the point of view of communication. By comparing journalists and food bloggers, organizations and institutions, experts and food professionals. And touching on topics such as food security, biodiversity, the economy, food and wine. For theinaugurazione, tomorrow at 9.30, there will be a conference on food policies to be adopted after Expo. Appointment at the University assembly hall, at Royal Horseman, where all the meetings will be held.

One day from the start, 619 are accredited directly to the Festival. To which we must add 450 accredited journalists Sogef and 150 accredited professionals Ecm. Among the accredited 225 directors are journalists, 90 bloggers, 96 are more generally defined as "communicators" and 208 declare themselves "other". Thirty-three are accredited as sponsors, while fifty are economics and management students. More than half of the accredited, from 337, come from Piedmont, other 282 from the rest of Italy (83 did not form this information).

Instead, 86, among journalists and food bloggers, the professionals who have decided to enroll in the Festival network on the website.

On Friday 26 February will also be live streaming, starting from the 9, on the United Media Intranet channel. It will be possible to watch the works by connecting to this link