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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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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Romania launches competition for the European Capital of Culture 2021 title

Romania recently launched the competition that will design the Romanian city that will receive the title of European Capital of Culture in 2021, according to Minister of Culture Hegedüs Csilla. The deadline for submitting applications is October 10, 2015. ‘The European Parliament and the European Commission decided in April that

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

'No shortfall' to council after Limerick City of Culture

Limerick CEO Conn Murray has confirmed that there will be ‘no shortfall’ to the local authority as a result of City of Culture, the final bill for which stands at around €10m. Mr Murray was speaking after a special meeting of Limerick City and County Council at County Hall this

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Regions and Gastronomy
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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Regions and Gastronomy
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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Regions and Gastronomy
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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Regions and Gastronomy
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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Experience Tourism
Diane Dodd

Penang set for role in MyFest 2015

Malaysia Year of Festivals 2015 (MyFest) organisers recently made a pit stop in Penang with talks for stakeholders and industry players on how to make the campaign a success. Tourism Malaysia deputy director-general Datuk Azizan Noordin and general manager of Visit Malaysia Year 2014 Secretariat general manager Nor Yahati Awang presented

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Cluj- Napoca is becoming the European Youth Capital for 2015

Thessaloniki in Greece is handing over  Cluj-Napoca in Romania the title for the European Youth Capital, a title won during a competition that had 49 European countries as participants. The program’s mission is to support youngsters and youth organizations in their active participation in changing the society through a sustainable, responsible

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Regions and Gastronomy
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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Regions and Gastronomy
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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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Pilsen 2015 celebration less than a month away

The West Bohemian city will be a European Capital of Culture next year. You can look forward to more than six hundred unique events starting Jan. 17 when the West Bohemian city of Pilsen takes up the banner as European Capital of Culture for 2015. ‘Pilsen 2015 is the biggest

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

‘Sustainable’ Cities – not Just for Yuppies

The ‘sustainable city’ is only salvageable if we recognise the sociological and political problems that exist within it.  Giving people a stake in the urban sustainability debate regardless of their background entails uniting around principles of diversity, recognition and participation. Currently, divisions are being created between those with the aptitude,

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