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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Experiential travel is new niche for Southeast Asian tourism

BusinessMirrer Philippines THE Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is promoting six experiential and creative travel themes to encourage multi-country trips across Southeast Asia. The themed promotions are part of the implementation of the Asean Tourism Marketing Strategy 2012-2015. The themes include: “The Tastes of Southeast Asia,” “Asean, a Tropical Paradise”,

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Art and gastronomy by a granddaughter of Lebanese

Brazil-Arab News Agency, São Paulo Her grandparents were Arab and when she was a child she watched her father João Paulo Basile, a Spaniard of Lebanese origin, practicing his favourite hobby: cooking. Graduated in architecture, Simone Mattar is currently one of the authorities in Brazil in gastronomy and art (food

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

World’s Best Restaurant: One-Year Wait, Dancing Ice Cream

Bloomberg Business Week The day El Celler de Can Roca was named World’s Best Restaurant, its website got 12 million hits. That’s according to Josep Roca, one of the three brothers who own the establishment in Girona, Spain. The waiting list for a table has grown to one year from 10

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

What's on Auckland: Restaurant Month

The Aucklander Back for the third year in a row, Restaurant Month has rapidly expanded to support the city’s passion for dining and food experiences. 2013 will see the month-long event infused with an international flavour. Restaurant Month events will include a theatrical Official Launch Party, a colourful street food market,

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

International Cake Day celebration in Baku with free sweets

Sabina Idayatova International Cake Day will be marked in Baku on July 20, the head of Azerbaijan National Culinary Center Tahir Amiraslanov has said. The event was organized by the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, National Culinary Center, National Culinary Association and Azerbaijan National Aerospace Agency. The first celebration of the International

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Mistura Food Festival showcases the best of Peruvian gastronomy

The largest food festival in Latin America will be slicing, dicing, baking, barbequing and revelling all things food for ten days this September as farmers, chefs, confectioners, food lovers and culinary experts descend on Peru for the annual gastronomic festival, Mistura. This year Mistura will coincide with the launch of Latin

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Life is Beautiful Festival Announces Culinary Experiences & New Chefs

Las Vegas Informer The two-day festival of world class music, food, art and learning in Downtown Las Vegas includes “Grills & Guitars” by Blue Ribbon Restaurants, “The Culinary Village” and “The Alchemy Garden.”  “The food experiences of Life is Beautiful Festival were carefully designed to be interactive, innovative and unexpected,” says Jolene Mannina, Head of

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Asean calls for multicountry tourism strategy

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) is urging tour operators from the 10-member states  of the grouping to develop multi-country packages highlighting the so-called “experiential and creative tourism.”…READ MORE

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World News
Diane Dodd

BioCultural synergies at LiTTribute to London

The ecology, literature, culture, sustainable development and their convergence in Caribbean fiction will feature at LiTTribute to LondonTTown to take place in London on Monday (July 15). The symbolic and actual representations of nature in fiction from the section NaTTurescapes in LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction from Trinidad and Tobago

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

BioCultural synergies at LiTTribute to LondonTown

By Kris Rampersad The ecology, literature, culture, sustainable development and their convergence in Caribbean fiction will feature at LiTTribute to London Town to take place in London on Monday (July 15).  The symbolic and actual representations of nature in fiction from the section NaTTurescapes in LiTTscapes – Landscapes of Fiction

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Cities and Culture
Diane Dodd

Getting ‘Digi’ with cuisine!

Food has gone digital, and how? Anything and everything you ever wanted to know about food is available on the go in the online space — from delicious recipes, health food tips, cooking videos to sharing your food experiences with friends, making table reservations and even ordering groceries. There are

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

La Batalla del Vino

By Nowness Every year on June 29, legions of locals and exuberant tourists congregate in the Spanish town of Haro, the wine capital of La Rioja, for the La Batalla del Vino festival. Celebrating el Día de San Pedro [the Day of St. Peter], the crowds douse each other in

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Regions and Gastronomy
Diane Dodd

Discovering Mykonos’ gastronomy

By  Isabella Zampetaki Curious to find out more about Mykonos’ culinary traditions, I pay a visit to Dimitris Roussounelos, writer, culinary explorer and gallery owner. As we sit next to a minimalist fish-themed installation in his shop, he opens a series of books to show me pictures of what life

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