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Diane Dodd

Farmer’s Market On Wheels Delivers Veggies To Toronto’s Food Deserts

Toronto’s recently launched Mobile Good Food Market which is selling fresh products on the streets in areas where people have few nutritious food options.In order to give urbanites in food deserts access to fresh and healthy food, some Torontonians came up with the Mobile Good Food Market. This unconventional food truck, donated

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Drawing on Heritage

Street art ― some as high as 15 m ― is drawing droves of visitors to Malaysia’s old towns. Many have catapulted the buildings that serve as canvasses to fame while others have drawn the public’s ire. Recently, Urban Xchange ― Malaysia’s first street art festival featuring Zacharevic, had artists like

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

What Your Personality Has to Do With Your Neighborhood

” There has been much less research on the clustering of personality types within cities and the effects of neighborhood location on happiness”. It’s a well-worn sociological truth that the neighborhoods in which we live can have a powerful effect on our lives. But how do our neighborhoods affect our overall

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

"Gastronomy, engine of change and development for the responsible tourism"

Responsible tourism is a global phenomenon that has in food and its elaboration an essential component, which begins in the organic production and continues with the responsible consumption. During the Forum there will be themes such as: the recovery of local food and traditional culinary knowledge; the interpretation of gastronomic

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Dubai Food Festival Announces 2015 Line-up

The Dubai Food Festival 2015’s full and flavoursome line-up of new and returning gastronomic consumer and business events, celebrity chefs, activities and promotions, has been announced today by Dubai Festivals and Retails Establishment (DFRE), an agency of Dubai Tourism and Commerce Marketing (DTCM). Marking the Festival’s second edition, this year’s

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

New York Officially Banned Plastic Foam Food Containers

New York City announced Thursday that as of this summer, those plastic foam containers (along with those plastic foam cups, plates and the like) are going to be banned. The city collected about 28,500 tons — repeat: 28,500 tons — of expanded polystyrene last year. About 90 percent of that was from

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Experience Tourism
Diane Dodd

IFEMA organizes the 35th edition of FITUR 2015

IFEMA organizes the 35th edition of the International Tourism Fair, FITUR 2015, which will run from January 28th to February 1st 2015 at the Feria de Madrid. The Fair will host the global tourism industry with the most comprehensive exhibition of the proposals and targets companies, organizations and institutions around

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Africa has an Astonishing Food Waste Problem- This is What One Group is Doing About it

EVEN though sub-Saharan Africa is the region with the highest prevalence of undernourishment, affecting about one in four people, between 30% to 40% of food produced on the continent for human consumption is lost or wasted.  Earlier this month, this concern brought together hundreds of residents in Nairobi for the continent’s first “Disco Soup” – an international grassroots movement to raise awareness of

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Revolting food traditions

Our emotive reactions to food are incredibly powerful in guiding our culinary habits. Food can bring joy and comfort, and make us voracious to eat more. It is an important part of our celebrations, but it is also deeply connected to undesirable emotions such as guilt, worry and revulsion. Not

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

How Greece's Economic Crisis Produced an Emerging Civil Society in Athens

ATHENS, Greece -The Greek economic crisis has hit this historic capital city hard. But if there is a bright spot, it is the grassroots social initiatives mushrooming all over the city. Designers, chefs, architects, writers, educators and other professionals — many of them unemployed — have channeled their energies into

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Making Art from Life in Palestine

The solo exhibition by the Palestinian-born Canadian artist features three pieces that uncover and highlight narratives of the Palestinian people under occupation that rarely trickle into the mainstream — to the extent that their showing earlier this year in a related exhibition at Ottawa City Hall sparked a mini diplomatic

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Market Cities: Barcelona Offers a Hopeful Glimpse of the Future

“There’s a lot of talk about food deserts today, but what many neighborhoods really have are place deserts,” says PPS’s Steve Davies. “As a result, we’re seeing a movement back to the idea of the Market City, with markets acting as catalysts for creating centers in neighborhoods that have lost

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

How to know a destination through its cuisine

To know a city, a region or a country through its food is one of the most satisfying experiences of a journey. The own culinary dishes of a destination we visit can tell us a lot about itself and the people who inhabit in it. Why these types of food

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Plzeň to launch year as European Capital of Culture next week

Plzen is preparing the biggest cultural event in the country for five years to celebrate Plzen as a European Capital of Culture 2015. The three-day ceremony, which will start on Friday, January 16, has been supervised by project artistic director Petr Forman, son of the Oscar-winning film director Milos Forman. The city

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