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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Indigenous Food Systems Should Be on the Development Menu

Overcoming hunger and malnutrition in the 21st century no longer means simply increasing the quantity of available food but also the quality. Despite numerous achievements in the world’s food systems, approximately 805 million people suffer from chronic hunger and roughly two billion peoples suffer from one or more micronutrient deficiencies

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Foodies are Freaking Out Over These Tiny Cooking Videos

People on the Internet tend to freak out about all things cute and tiny, from babies to animals to babies who are friends with animals. But now, there’s a new addition to this genre: videos of people making tiny edible food creations on YouTube. We’ve just discovered this trend of making

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

When the Sidewalks Were Wider Than the Streets

In this striking short film from City Walk, footage of a busy New York street filmed by the Thomas Edison Company in 1901 makes for a stark juxtaposition to the same stretch of road today. Can you spot the difference …READ MORE  

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Growing Intolerance

Bread has always been at the heart of human history – we’ve been baking it for the best part of 10,000 years. But over the past decade there has been an explosion of people reporting problems with eating it. How could wheat, a staple food that has sustained humanity for

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