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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Foodies flock to flavorful Cape Town

From secret food meets to trendy markets, original food trucks and award-winning restaurants, Cape Town continues to offer a rich variety of foodie experiences. This year a project called 2014 Food will also run throughout the year at various venues around Cape Town for World Design Capital 2014… READ MORE

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Blog
Diane Dodd

Third visit to Plovdiv 2019

IGCAT experts, Robert Palmer and Mary Miller paid a visit to Plovdiv last week to support their bid for European Capital of Culture 2019. During the visit in Bulgaria they provided advice, help and support to thePlovdiv 2019 Foundation and City stakeholders, in order bring our the best in the bid

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Third visit to Plovdiv 2019

IGCAT experts, Robert Palmer and Mary Miller paid a visit to Plovdiv last week to support their bid for European Capital of Culture 2019. During the visit in Bulgaria they provided advice, help and support to the Plovdiv 2019 Foundation and City stakeholders, in order bring our the best in

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Food art exhibit plays off biotech’s scary potential

“Foodture: PlantBot Genetics” at Wayne State’s Elaine L. Jacob Gallery succeeds at the latter three. Monsanto and other giant agricultural conglomerates might feel wounded, but the rest of us will laugh at the artists’ tongue-in-cheek attack on genetically modified foods in this traveling show that’s one part science experiment, one

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Edible Masterpieces To Help UK Museums And Galleries

The Art Fund have launched a new fundraising initiative that encourages art lovers to create edible masterpieces – all funds raised go towards helping UK museums and galleries. The competition encourages you to get together with your friends, family or colleagues on Friday 9 May to see who can make the

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Experience Tourism
Diane Dodd

Swapsee and EatWith will host Barcelona's first Concept Jam

On February 25th Swapsee and EatWith will bring together some of Barcelona’s brightest professionals to enjoy gourmet home cooking and flex their mind muscles in a creative maelstrom aimed at answering a Conceptual Question: “What is an experience, can it be transmitted online, and if so, how?” … READ MORE

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Diane Dodd

New cooperation-models for European external cultural relations

IGCAT expert, Diane Dodd was invited as part of a small circle of experts engaged with exploring new co-operation models for integrating culture in external relations, hosted by the ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) and More Europe, at the Goethe-Institut in Brussels.  With the premise that Europe must not be seen merely

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New cooperation-models for European external cultural relations

Diane Dodd was invited as part of a small circle of experts engaged with exploring new co-operation models for integrating culture in external relations, hosted by the ifa (Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen) and More Europe, at the Goethe-Institut in Brussels.  With the premise that Europe must not be seen merely as

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Ferran Adria’s innovation on display at the Museum of Science

If, like most foodies, you read a lot about celebrity chef Ferran Adrià but never had a chance to dine at elBulli restaurant in Spain, the Museum of Science is about to offer you a valuable substitute course. A new temporary exhibit, “Innovation in the Art of Food: Chef Ferran

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Blog
Diane Dodd

Destination Europe 2020 Conference. Brussels, 12th February 2014.

The Destination Europe 2020 Conference, convened by the European Travel Commission (ETC), gathered over 100 delegates from all over Europe to consider the future of tourism in Europe towards 2020. An important element of these deliberations was gastronomy – identified by the ETC as a major pan-European theme for tourism

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