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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Gastronomy drawing more and more visitors to Peru

by Andean Air Mail & PERUVIAN TIMES Peruvian food is increasingly becoming a draw for tourists to the Andean nation. The National Tourism Chamber, Canatur, forecasts that 70,000 to 80,000 foreign tourists come to Peru exclusively for the food…..READ MORE

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Poland’s food scene grows in stature

YouTube Though Poland is not often associated with gastronomy, the country’s food scene is expanding fast. Growing numbers of organic food markets are spring up across the capital Warsaw, and Polish chefs are winning acclaim for their combinations of…READ MORE

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Gastronomy festival gets underway in central Mexico

GlobalPost A gastronomy festival got underway Saturday in the central Mexican state of Guanajuato, where thousands of people will enjoy the different events featuring leading local and international chefs. The state’s Tourism Secretary …READ MORE

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Archestratus and the Secrets of Ancient Greek Gastronomy

Ancient Greek poet and philosopher of Gela or Syracuse Archestratus was the first to approach cooking as an art. The origin of modern day word gastronomy (meaning Rules of the Stomach) is attributed to Archestratus, Europe’s first gourmet writer, and his later readers who knew his poem by the name

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Greek gastronomy in Brussels

Travel Daily News Following the success of Brusselicious, the Greek National Tourism Organisation in Belgium and SETE (the Association of Greek Tourism Enterprises) launched the initiative “gαΣtronoμία @ Bruxelles”, in order to highlight the Greek gastronomy in Brussels. READ MORE  

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Fermented frenzy: London Gastronomy Seminars talk mouldy cheese

Blue cheese! Beer! Sourdough! Miso! Is it fermentation that creates the flavours you really crave? Then here’s your chance to find our more about mould, fungi and the microbes that turn food funkier than James Brown taking it to the bridge. The London Gastronomy Seminars have a two-hour talk on

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Zero Mile Gastronomy: This Isn’t Your Grandma’s Garden

Homaro Cantu, Chef It’s time to go back to the days when we ate both locally and intuitively, the days when we turned to the earth for sustenance instead of the frozen section. When you eat fresh, seasonal foods, you trim not only your waistline, but also your grocery bill and

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Masters of Gastronomy

Masters of Gastronomy (Italy) Since launching in 2005, the master program of the University of Gastronomic Sciences (UNISG) has been a study in diversity. More than 400 students have enrolled, representing 50 nations and an age range of 22 to 66. READ MORE

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

More than good food

Yap Mun Ching While I love Malaysian food and have always appreciated it in all its many forms, I believe that our fixation with it may have also grown to become a cause and symptom of a national illness.  In the first place, our obsession with food seems to have

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