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Food Culture: A City is What it Eats

Food Culture: A City is What it Eats
22 January 2015

Modern, urban life often makes a ‘slow food’ approach to eating difficult. Urban life steers us towards food that is quick to get hold of , tasty...

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Can the Slow Food Movement Help the Global Poor? Ford is Betting On It

Can the Slow Food Movement Help the Global Poor? Ford is Betting On It
21 January 2015

Mention “Slow Food” and it’s hard not to think of a more affluent crowd of foodies and hipsters who have the luxury to think in...

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Car-less Bree Street Brings Colour and Life to Cape Town

Car-less Bree Street Brings Colour and Life to Cape Town
21 January 2015

Something strange happens when all the cars leave an ordinarily busy road: you start looking at it in a completely different way. Many visitors to...

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Los Angeles Renaissance: Why the Rise of Street Vending Reveals a City Transformed

Los Angeles Renaissance: Why the Rise of Street Vending Reveals a City Transformed
21 January 2015

Sidewalk vending is illegal in the City of Los Angeles, but that doesn’t stop an estimated 50,000 Angelenos from setting up shop in the streets...

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From Farm to Fork and Back Again: New California Law Seeks to Close Food Waste Loop

From Farm to Fork and Back Again: New California Law Seeks to Close Food Waste Loop
21 January 2015

California’s regulations governing organic food waste became more stringent on September 28, 2014, as Governor Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill...

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Bidding for the 2016 European Region of Gastronomy Award Closes

Bidding for the 2016 European Region of Gastronomy Award Closes
20 January 2015

The deadline for bidding for the first annual European Region of Gastronomy award closed on Monday 19 January 2015. The shortlisted regions will...

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Iraq Tries to Get Babylon on World Heritage List

Iraq Tries to Get Babylon on World Heritage List
20 January 2015

Iraqi Minister of Tourism and Antiquities on Monday said that his country is seeking to restore the ancient ruin city of Babylon onto the UNESCO...

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Developing a Feasible Cultural Project Plan

Developing a Feasible Cultural Project Plan
20 January 2015

IGCAT’s Director gave the 2nd of a 3-part general tutorial to international students of the Master in Arts and Cultural Management at the...

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Here Is The Most Disproportionately Popular Cuisine In Each State of USA

Here Is The Most Disproportionately Popular Cuisine In Each State of USA
20 January 2015

When most people think American cuisine, they think pizza, hot dogs and hamburgers. While these are indeed staples across the country, every state...

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UNWTO activities at FITUR 2015

UNWTO activities at FITUR 2015
20 January 2015

Models of production and sustainable tourism consumption, the role of technology in the universal accessibility of tourism, the future of tourism...

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Farm Hit by Falling Milk Prices Sells 'Raw' Milk Direct

Farm Hit by Falling Milk Prices Sells 'Raw' Milk Direct
20 January 2015

A farm has started selling its milk directly to the public because the money it receives wholesale is “plummeting”. Jane Barnes has a...

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Plzeň Becomes 2015’s European Capital of Culture

Plzeň Becomes 2015’s European Capital of Culture
19 January 2015

Plzeň, known as the Czech capital of beer that gave the world Pilsner lager in 1842, has been officially inaugurated as the European Capital of...

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