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Diane Dodd

Locl Food Lab

LOCI, inspired by the Chaat stands of India, employs a representative from the Centre to tailor make your desired snack in accordance with your selection from their mini menu. The edible experiments are made from hyper-local ingredients, in their natural season, by hyper-local people.The representative present can then answer (or

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Diane Dodd

Two global conventions for tourism and gastronomy in 2015

Growing attention for the relationship between gastronomy and tourism is being marked by the steep increase in events devoted to the topic. In 2015 there will be two global conventions dealing with tourism and gastronomy; the World Food Travel Summit and Expo will be held in early April in Estoril,

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

A Berlinale Award for Carlo Petrini and Alice Waters

The Berlin Film Festival – the Berlinale – is one of the most important events in the movie calendar.  Every February, despite cold temperatures, directors, actors, journalists and cinema fans from all over the world gather in Germany’s capital for the internationally famous event. Last week it was announced that

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Diane Dodd

Santa Coloma puts scientific knowledge at the service of gastronomy

The Torribera Campus of Food in Santa Coloma de Gramenet (Barcelona) and CETT school host the only interuniversity degree of Culinary and Gastronomic Sciences taught in Spain. The 62 students of the first promotion will gain knowledge of the food from a scientific point of view to after manipulate them

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Diane Dodd

Zero Waste Dining

Brighton’s newest restaurant SILO has adopted an interesting slant on sustainable behaviour by utilizing a pre-industrial food system which generates zero waste.SILO chooses to provide quality through purity, applying this ethos to determining their menu right down to how they source their ingredient. SILO pride themselves on totally eliminating waste from

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Diane Dodd

10,000 Gardens in Africa Project in London

From 1,000 to 10,000 gardens: this is the challenge with which Slow Food began 2014. An ambitious goal that Slow Food and its Foundation for Biodiversity are undertaking with the help of the network of Terra Madre communities in Africa, and with a major fundraising campaign across the rest of

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Diane Dodd

Food: EU consumers to benefit from better labelling as of 13 December 2014

As of 13 December 2014, new EU food labelling rules, adopted by the European Parliament and the Council in 2011, will ensure that consumers receive clearer, more comprehensive and accurate information on food content, and help them make informed choices about what they eat. However, rules relating to mandatory nutritional labelling

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Diane Dodd

"The Common Language of the Kitchen, The Youth Experiencing the Diversity of Europe" | Lubieo, Poland | 20-28.01.2015

The project aims to explore and try to build a common identity of young Europeans in relation to the culinary habits and terminology through workshops, national gastronomy nights and other activities.Through the exchange of new attempts to highlight the creativity and entrepreneurship and growth as a result of common interests

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Diane Dodd

Diplomats mobilise to save France’s culinary pride

The French have a worldwide reputation for gastronomic excellence. But while the country still boasts some of the globe’s finest restaurants, chinks have begun to appear in its culinary armour with ever-increasing competition from other countries, from Japan to Brazil via Spain, Denmark and Britain. With so much riding on France’s

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Diane Dodd

Read about 'Dijon: City of Arts and Capital of Gastronomy – The Making of an Urban Image (1919­-1935)'. A Research Paper Presented by Philippe Poirrier, University of Bourgogne and IGCAT Expert

Gaston Gérard was Mayor of Dijon from 1919 to 1935. In the early 1920s, Gérard launched the Dijon Gastronomy Fair. He considered gastronomy to be a part of the arts. This was not a revolutionary idea, but to actively make it a part of the city’s image transformation was extremely

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Diane Dodd

Julfest celebrates Scandinavian food, culture

This Saturday, Dec. 13, is Spiran Lodge’s Julfest. A few rich veins of authenticity still marble Cape Ann. One vein is the traditions behind Spiran Lodge, the local chapter of the Swedish order Vasa, an active preservation of the Scandinavian culture that brought song, dance and the haunting aroma of wafting

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Diane Dodd

Safeguarding Mexican Gastronomy in Puebla

In November, the Conservatorio de la Cultura Gastronómica Mexicana held its second International Mexican Gastronomy Forum in the city of Puebla, about 100 kilometers east of Mexico City. The Conservatorio is a non-profit that was formed in 2006 by researchers, chefs, cooks, professors, journalists and others concerned about protecting Mexican food, its

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Diane Dodd

Culinary arts: Cooking up a storm

Culinary arts have emerged to the fore in Pakistan as a profession that cooking enthusiasts are increasingly pivoting towards. To offer well-rounded education and its practical application to budding cooks, the privately-run National Institute of Culinary Arts and Hotel Management (NICAHM) opened its doors in June 2014…READ MORE

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