Around the globe, Peruvian cuisine is bang on trend, tantalizing international taste buds and drawing the attentions of enthusiastic foodies and food industry professionals alike. As a reflection of the blessings it can being to the gourmet’s table, for the past three years in a row, Peru has been crowned
Minho and Catalunya launched their programs for 2016 when they will hold the title European Region of Gastronomy, at an event held at ExpoMilan 2015. Francisco de Calhieros presented Minho’s programme and emphasied how the award has helped them to convince competitive towns to collaborate together and builda regional identity. Patrick Torrent,
Galway was officially announced as a candidate to become designated European Region of Gastronomy 2018 last Tuesday at a stakeholder briefing attended by in excess of 100 participants in the Galway Bay Hotel.The briefing was addressed by a number of key speakers and included a workshop which will inform Galway’s
The four Irish finalists of the 2015 European Destination of Excellence (EDEN) Awards are today joining Fáilte Ireland to demonstrate Ireland’s food appeal to the Italian media at EXPO Milan 2015.The Burren Food Trail, the So Sligo Food Trail, the Cong Food Village and the producers of the West Waterford
When former chef Adam Smith opened a small cafe in Britain’s industrial north two years ago, serving up dishes with food destined for the scrap heap, he had big aspirations: To fight global food waste. “From day one I set out to feed the world and I intend to do that,”
According to Huffingpost Travel, there’s no doubt that street art has been experiencing a cultural rebirth in Europe. In the past,many referred to graffiti as the ugly duck of the arts. Back in the day it was considered a kind of vandalism that made cities dirtier and belittled their prestige,
Wine Art VAS is a company created by Sofia and Natalia Vas. As an artists, they have collaborated on different projects for years, but recently they gathered their passions for art and wine and have created Wine Art VAS, a new project that have them embarked on this new adventure
Sumof Us.org has pointed out that “a worker at a McDonald’s in Brazil has worked for a year and a half and was fired for speaking out”. He learned that “McDonald’s exploits not just its employees, but my country as well”. McDonald’s is allegedly breaking laws, dodging taxes, and withholding worker
For many a European tourist near the end of the 20th century, Spain was the place for a summer holiday. It had all the essentials: proximity, good food and wine, sandy beaches and culture aplenty, from museums to music, dance to drama. Visitors could fast in Madrid’s legendary Escorial monastery,
“BERGAMO 2.035, smarter citizens & glitchy food. The food local system through an analysis by the University of Bergamo and Harvard Graduate School of Design” – The research is focused on the development of local food, adopting the metaphor of “glitches” as applied to urban environments, or those anomalies and
ENCATC has announced its 23rd ENCATC Annual Conference “The Ecology of Culture: Community Engagement, Co-creation, Cross Fertilization” to be held from 21-23 October 2015 in Lecce, Italy. Find out more here. ENCATC has also published the Conference report “New Challenges for the Arts and Culture: Is it just about money?”. Download the full
Since news broke of the Ebola outbreak, tourism figures to the African sub-region have slammed considerably, forcing a re-look at the sector by many governments. In response, Ghana’s Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Creative Arts has initiated an ‘Explore Ghana’ drive, with the sector’s minister making fervent efforts amid her
In 2014, the number of international tourists reached 1.14 billion, 51 million more than in 2013, according to the World Tourism Organization, making it the fifth consecutive year of above-average growth in global tourism since the 2009 economic crisis. At the same time, the majority of the sites all those
Going to Expo is the window of ideas, projects, and people that a group of innovative companies decided to put together to promote their participation at Expo Milan 2015. The selection was promoted with a public tender by Sprint Sicily, the internationalization unit of the regional councillorship for Productive Businesses,
A study carried out by Richard Florida, Charlotta Mellander and Karen King at the beginning of July evaluated 139 nations worldwide on their ability to compete and prosper in this new, creativity-powered knowledge economy. The main discovery was that there is no necessary relationship between creativity and inequality. Nations can
Thailand aims at turning mass tourism spots which tend to be very cheap and more about quantity into quality spots for foreign tourists. The focus of promotion campaigns will no longer aim at reaching targets on the number of world foreigners to visit the country, but rather focus on the
