The North Carolina food sisterhood stretches out beyond restaurants, into pig farming, flour milling and pickling. Women run the state’s pre-eminent pasture-raised meat and organic produce distribution businesses and preside over its farmers’ markets. They influence food policy and lead the state’s academic food studies. And each fall, the state
The first annual European Region of Gastronomy award candidates have been shortlisted. The regions of Catalonia (Spain) and Minho (Portugal) presented successful written proposals to IGCAT on Monday 19 January 2015. The shortlisted regions will have the opportunity to present their bid to a selected jury panel and public audience on Friday 6
Pilsen (Czech Republic) and Mons (Belgium) are the European Capitals of Culture for 2015. Pilsen will officially launch its cultural programme on 17 January and Mons on 24 January, starting a year-long programme of cultural activities which will boost local community involvement and attract participants from near and far …READ
More than a third of all of the food that’s produced on our planet never reaches a table. It’s either spoiled in transit or thrown out by consumers in wealthier countries, who typically buy too much and toss the excess. This works out to roughly 1.3 billion tons of food,
Low carbon tourism is expected to raise public awareness of the impact of global warming caused by tourism. Meanwhile creative tourism should help stimulate the number of tourists during the low season. Last year, twelve tourism-based communities in six special designated areas have since 2013, helped reduce carbon caused by
Are you a responsible traveler wondering how to effectively support local economies while traveling? Richard McCarthy, the executive director of Slow Food USA, talks about some delicious ways to do this on the road and go local. READ MORE…
In Fontanellato, just outside Parma, surrounded by verdure and silence, Franco Maria Ricci has built the largest bamboo labyrinth in the world. The Masone Labyrinth is a project that could potentially attract thousands of visitors and create “at least twenty jobs.” Ricci’s foundation was created to collect artwork, books and host exhibitions,
The next rounds of secret talks for two trade deals that will put our democracy, food safety and environmental standards in the hands of corporations are about to take place in Brussels and New York. World leaders are working alongside major corporations to pass these dangerous deals — but are
Nearly half of global manufacturers say they don’t have any visibility past their direct suppliers – in other words, they don’t know what is happening in their supply chain. While they may audit first tier suppliers, they usually cannot see beyond them to their suppliers’ suppliers.Applying higher standards to information
The European Studies Institute of the University of Piura (Peru) and the Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania) invite you to the 13th «European Culture» Conference, which will take place in Cluj-Napoca, Romania between the 29th and the 31th of October 2015 at the Faculty of European Studies (Babeş-Bolyai University). The dialogue between
Centrally located in the heart of old Sao Paulo on the west bank of the Tamanduateí River, the Municipal Market is a traditional meeting point for Paulistanos (locals) and a popular site for tourists. Known by city residents as the Mercadão (Big Market), the neo-classical stone building in which the
The Foreign Ministry and 30 foreign embassies in Hanoi hosted a food festival on January 24 in a bid to promote cultural exchange among nations and raise funds for orphans and the disabled. More than 4,000 people flocked to the event, where the embassies put on show the specialties and unique
The Cultural Innovation International Prize is a biennial competition organised by the Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona (CCCB) with the aim of incentivising projects that explore the potential cultural scenarios of the coming years through research and practice. The first edition of the Prize ties in with the 20th
Modern, urban life often makes a ‘slow food’ approach to eating difficult. Urban life steers us towards food that is quick to get hold of , tasty and cheap. How we use food is deeply rooted in our cultural attitudes towards it. If we can understand what shapes our views on
Mention “Slow Food” and it’s hard not to think of a more affluent crowd of foodies and hipsters who have the luxury to think in highly intentional ways about how and what they eat. In fact, though, that’s an unfair stereotype and this is a movement that, among other things,
Something strange happens when all the cars leave an ordinarily busy road: you start looking at it in a completely different way. Many visitors to Open Streets Bree Street commented that it was almost surreal to see the road’s cycle lanes being used in the manner in which they were
