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on this page: World Food Day, Buzzwords related: Foodie Tips for Locals and Visitors, Kitchen Hopping, Slow Food, Street food, World Food, World Market flipboard: [|World Food] slideshare: [|food, health and community] (32,000+ views), [|food bingo] (2,000+ views) storify: [|fhcc] youtube: [|ron's foodie playlist] editing: [|Food, Health and Cultivating Communities]

Essay
Food, like language, is an excellent entry into another culture. Come hungry!

Knowing stories of the food on your plate adds to the pleasures of eating and connects you to the world. Here we pay attention to food events around the world, catch up on the new lingo and ask for your pictures of good food.

Foodies play a critical role in promoting responsible travel, ecotourism, conscious travel and the local travel movement. Choosing what we eat and where we eat goes a long way in cultivating communities and improving the health of travelers and locals alike.

We're asking our friends and readers to have a good think about cultivating communities - local and global - focused on food, health and merriment, the global craic.

Today =4 de julio de 2017. Proyecto de patrimonización de la gastronomía en México =

Seminario "Cocinas en México, procesos biosociales, históricos y reproducción cultural" Programa 2017 Tema: Proyecto de patrimonización de la gastronomía en México y las cocinas tradicionales Ponente: Sol Rubín de la Borbolla

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Wiki foods
bananas beer cheese chocolate corn coffee vanilla wheat

WIki
Fao Markets Slow food Food Tips for Travelers

Regional cuisines
Ecuador food New Zealand food Mexico food

Spanish: ¿Quieres venir a cenar?
 * Translating: Want to come over for dinner?**

Spanish: Alimento para el cuerpo no es suficiente. Tiene que ser el alimento del alma.
 * Translating: Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul. - [|Dorothy Day]**

Recommended Viewing
Food Network http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/the-kitchen/recipes https://twitter.com/FoodNetwork

The Kitchen http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/the-kitchen/recipes

Headlines
[|'You Are What You Eat': The Ethics of Food, the Care of the Self, the Companionship of Others] - [|@ABCReligion] http://www.laweekly.com/restaurants/food-halls-are-the-new-food-trucks-in-many-la-neighborhoods-8743628 https://www.thenation.com/article/the-future-of-food http://www.dw.com/en/how-eco-friendly-are-leaf-plates/a-37204699 https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolineodonovan/the-not-so-wholesome-reality-behind-the-making-of-your-meal http://mashable.com/2016/04/02/outdoor-fridge-feeding-homeless [|The Rise of Food Sharing Experiences at Meetings and Events - Skift] [] [|Prawns, The Guardian, and a Small Rant] - [|@AnnieLevy121] [|Culinary Tourism: Exploring Local Culture through Food] [|Whole Foods: America’s Temple of Pseudoscience] [|The backbone of the flavor network] [|Why You Like What You Like] [|Golden rice is no silver bullet: hunger needs a political solution] [|Can food make Responsible Travel irresponsible?] - [|@ThisTourismWeek] [|Lady at the unRestaurant in London] [|Confronting corporate power in the food system] http://www.foodtimeline.org/fruit.html#fruitorvegetable

Urban Agriculture
urban agriculture http://land8.com/m/blogpost?id=2025679%3ABlogPost%3A724789

**October 16 World Food Day** http://planeta.com/world-food-day

[] [|Día Mundial de la Alimentación] [|@FAOKnowledge] [|#WFD2017]

Climate is changing. Agriculture must change too. Today is ⚡️ “World Food Day” https://twitter.com/i/moments/787671668910981121

Spanish: Alimentar al mundo, cuidar el planeta
 * Translating: Feeding the world, caring for the earth**

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Food Manifestos
http://www.clausmeyer.dk/en/the_new_nordic_cuisine_/manifesto_.html http://www.australianfoodsovereigntyalliance.org/peoples-food-plan/


 * Contemplating a new food pyramid, how could our food stories address the following connections:

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Apps
[|Beyond Menu] [|Big Oven] [|Epicurious] [|Food Spotting] [|Foodswitch] [|OpenTable] [] [|Urbanspoon] [|Zagat]


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MOOC
[|https://www.coursera.org/courses?orderby=up]

Food and equality

 * Thought provoking article by South African blogger [|Sarah-Emily Duff] about who writes about our food, who works with our food, and where the equality lies (or doesn't lie) in the food chain. []
 * Food as an essential element of responsible travel.

rss
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Buzzword Bingo
achacha - aftertaste - agriculture - [|a la carte] - all you can eat - allergy - antioxidant - [|appellation d'origine contrôlée] - appetite - appetizer - artificial - artisan - bakery - banquet - beer - [|biodynamic agriculture] - [|biomagnification] - breakfast - brunch - buffet - bulk - butcher - cake - carnivore - carrotmob - cash bar (no host bar) - cereal - [|champagne] - [|charcuterie] - chef - cheese - chewing - chocolate - cocktails - [|chutney] - cocktails - coffee - cold cuts - comelón - comfort food - community supported agriculture - compost - convenience - cook - corn - cottage food - craving - curry - degustación - delicatessen - dessert - dinner - drink - eat - egg - encuentro culinarios - entree - essen - family style - fast food - fasting - feast - fika - fire - first bite - fish - flavor - flight - **food** - [|foodoir] - food cart - food desert - food porn - food miles - [|food pairings] - [|food security] - food shed - food sovereignty - food stylist - food truck - foodprint - free range - fresh - [|fufu] - fusion - garden - gastronomy - gluten - [|glycaemic index] - gourmet - graze - grill - guilt free - gluttony - handcrafted - handmade - hassle free - health - herbs - hole in the wall - homemade - homestyle - hunger - ice - imitation - [|infusion] - ingredients - juicy - kale - [|kambucha] - kitchen - [|knytkalas] - [|kosher] - label - lekker - local - localvore - lunch - maiz - meal - menu - mezcal - mindful eating - mouthfeel - natural - nourish - nutrition - obesity - organic - [|palate] - party - pasta - paleo - pastry - phosphorus - pizza - pizza stone - placemat - plate - pleasure - portion - portion control - potluck - price - [|probiotic] - produce - protein - provenance - pulses - pure - quality - quinoa - quorm - raw - recycling - reduced guilt - rice - [|root cellar] - salt - sample - [|savoriness] - seasonality - seasoning - seeds - self-serve - serving - shared plate - side dish - signature - sitopia - soil - slow food - [|sommelier] - special - spice - spicy - stomach - street food - supermarket - [|supertaster] - supper - sweet - sweet tooth - table - table settings - tart - taste - taste buds - tasting - tasting menu - tofu - tongue - top shelf - traditional - [|transfat] - [|umami] - use by date - vanilla - vegan - vegetarian - vending machine - vitamin - wheat - whole - wild food - wine - wooden spoon - world food day

More lingo lessons http://blog.etundra.com/food-service/glossary-restaurant-terms

Compost Cuisine
Compost Cuisine = Preparing food from materials that otherwise would be thrown out. [] [] [] []

Foodshed is an area where food is grown and eaten. In concept this is similar to that of a [|watershed.]; The size of the foodshed varies depending on the availability of year-round foods and the variety of foods grown and processed. "The term 'foodshed' thus becomes a unifying and organizing metaphor for conceptual development that starts from a premise of the unity of place and people, of nature and society." [|Wikipedia]
 * Foodshed**

Food porn is a provocative term variously applied to a spectacular visual presentation of cooking or eating in advertisements, infomercials, cooking shows - [|Wikipedia]
 * Foodporn**

Today 1 billion people are what's called "food insecure" - meaning they don't have enough food or easy or reliable access to food.
 * Food Insecure**


 * Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)** projects improve the quality and quantity of food available locally while reducing the environmental impact of producing this food.


 * What is a potluck?** A potluck is an event where a group gathers for a meal, and everyone brings one dish to share with the group.

http://mixeddozen.net - http://mixeddozen.net/manifest0 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rnfirstbite/a-mixed-dozen-comes-to-lunch/5976412
 * Mixed Dozen**

Table Settings / Tableware [|The latest thing chefs are willing to spend big bucks on to impress diners]

Translating: Foodie
Comelón (Spanish, Mexico)

Translating ... Food Carts
Pie Cart (New Zealand) Puesto (Mexico)

Translating
English: Feast or Famine Spanish: Hamburna o Abundancia

Translating: Aftertaste
Spanish: Resabio

slideshare
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Recommended listening
[|The Chili Powder Cheat: A Tex-Mex Story - Southern Foodways] - [|@ryangordonkatz] [|@potlikker] related: texas, authenticity, fascist culinarians (!) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chili_powder https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_appropriation

[|Say that again - tales of noisy nosh] - So many of our modern eateries are built with reflective surfaces, floor included. So when a place heats up the last thing you can hear is the person sitting across the table.

[|Catching Fire: how cooking made us human] - The national obsession with TV cooking shows might not seem like the high point of human endeavour, but in fact they represent the most important shift in human evolution: our desire to eat cooked food. Primatologist Richard Wrangham argues we got our big brains -- and evolved into humans -- only after we figured out how to use fire to cook our food. If we couldn't cook, he says, we'd still be in the trees.

[|Substantial energy difference between raw food, cooked food and processed food] Eating raw food may cost you between 15% and 35% more in energy to digest. Details []

[|Food on Friday - ABC] [|Food Programme - BBC]

[|Catching Fire: how cooking made us human], [|food, glorious food], [|The end of fish], [|Community Supported Agriculture], [|Food & Travel, Savouring the Local , Flavours when you Travel] , [|Food provinance (New Zealand)]

https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/a-taste-of-the-past/id351948564?mt=2&ign-mpt=uo%3D4

[|FirstBite] [|@RNfirstbite] wiki

Flickr
[|Food - Ron Mader] [|Sámi Food] [|Dulces] [|Essen] http://www.flickr.com/photos/nuttisamisiida/sets/72157629676123790 http://www.flickr.com/photos/agmilmoe/sets/72157594356771968/

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media type="custom" key="23530348" Among the highlights are features about [|local food], [|slow food], [|food miles] and [|wild food]. We also are conducting the popular [|World Food Photography Group].

Flickr Groups
[|World Food] [|World Markets] [|Sustainable tea, coffee and chocolate]


 * More Flickr Groups**: [|Foodista], [|Healthy Food & Community], [|Local is Beautiful - Growing & Eating Local Food], [|Edible Gardening], [|Sprig], [|Organic Gardeners], [|Légumes et Fruits du monde], [|Mexican food], [|I ate this], [|Sustainable tea, coffee and chocolate] and [|Culinary Tourism]

Games: I'd eat that!
Kudos to Melissa Biggs for coming up with this game. Take a look at the Flickr pics in the [|World Food Group] and figure out which photos would go into the following categories:
 * I would eat that
 * You can eat that, but I won't.
 * No one should eat that

Instagram
https://www.instagram.com/madame_bijoux

Videos
[|How Food Shapes Our Lives. Carolyn Steel] At the State of Design Festival 2011, Carolyn Steel's keynote address highlights how feeding cities arguably has a greater social and physical impact on the planet and us than anything else we do. Even as extreme weather and oil prices send the cost of food soaring, fast food and supermarket price wars mean produce is being valued at unsustainably low levels. Steel discusses how cities can be designed more productively and to address food security, accessibility, production, consumption and distribution.

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[|The guerrilla gardener's seedbomb recipe] - For those hard to reach public spaces, the guerrilla gardener has a weapon: seedbombs. Richard Reynolds shows how to make them at home - and how to use them

Facebook Question: [|When you are traveling, how willing are you to try local food and drink?]

Blogs
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http://smallbites.andybellatti.com http://barbecuedadventures.blogspot.com - [|@BBQAdventures] [|Foodie List] [|How to shuck an oyster] [|Menu in Progress] [] [] http://mylifeincholula.blogspot.com [|Mexico Cooks Blog] [|DrVino Wine Blog] [] - [] []

Other Forums
[|Chow Hound] [|Get Stuffed - Thorn Tree]

Google+
[|Local Flavor]

[|@GetLocalFlavor] [|@BBQAdventures] [|@VicFarmrsMarkts] [|@michaelpollan] [|@FAOWFD] [|@TheFoodLabUT] [|@RipeNearMe] https://twitter.com/AlimentationGnr https://twitter.com/rare_cooking https://twitter.com/historecipes
 * Twitter**

Twitter Lists
[|foodie-faves]

Storify
[|Food, Health and Cultivating Communities]

YouTube
[|Latin American Cooking (Cocina Latina)] [|The Culinary Institute of America]

Elsewhere on the web
http://www.foodlog.nl [|7 Great Tips how to discover the best local food and produce when you travel] [|Your Meat is Green - Chowhound] [|International Day for Biological Diversity- CBD] [|Eating close to home: The localvore challenge - ABC] [|Mexico City: Slow Food Tamalada and Mescal Tasting - Menu in Progress] [|The Old Foodie] [|Edible Austin] [|Organic Europe] [|Indian tea tourism helps spread Darjeeling aroma] [|Mark Bittman: What's wrong with what we eat/TED] http://www.amazingcarbon.com http://veganfusion.com [|Eating the Earth] - http://www.abc.net.au/rn/foraradio/stories/2009/2561528.htm [|Ask Pablo: Food Miles] [|How to End the Global Food Shortage - Jeffrey Sachs/Time] [|Local food 'greener than organic' - BBC] [|Observer Food Monthly] [|Tim Lang: The man who invented food miles] [|Epicurious] [|Field and Feast] [|Food Production - Byron Shire] (Australia) [|Green Tucker] [|James Beard Foundation] [|International Year of the Potato 2008] [|Study of Food and Society] [|Taste Festivals (UK)] Food for the Parks (The Institute at the Golden Gate’s //Food for the Parks// initiative aims to expand the availability of nutritious, local, and sustainable fresh food to park visitors across the U.S. and beyond)

//It's easy to get over the hypocrisy of having travelled 11,400 kilometers to 'eat locally' when tucking into the tastiest heirloom tomatoes with home-pickled veg. When the view through a darkening restaurant window shows golden vineyards backed by an unspoilt mountain range, it's simple to forget that your size-12 carbon footprint has stomped straight through the "eat local, think global" ethos. -// [|A taste for Canada - Sunday Star Times]

//More Food News//

Recent Events
[|Terra Madre 2008] [|Salone del Gusto]

ASEAN Food Security: The Role of the Private Sector
Singapore June 16-18 - ASEAN hosts a conference bringing together government officials and the private sector to explore how they can collaborate and cooperate on food security. [|Follow regular news updates from the event!] [|Contribute to the outcomes!] [|Photos]

World Food Prize https://www.worldfoodprize.org https://www.worldfoodprize.org/en/about_the_prize/ https://twitter.com/worldfoodprize

** THE WORLD FOOD PRIZE ** is the foremost international honor recognizing -- without regard to race, religion, nationality, or political beliefs -- the achievements of individuals who have advanced human development by improving the quality, quantity or availability of food in the world. The $250,000 annual award recognizes contributions in any field involved in the world food supply including, but not limited to: plant, animal and soil science; food science and technology; nutrition; rural development; marketing; food processing and packaging; water and the environment; natural resource conservation; physical infrastructure; transportation, storage and distribution; special or extraordinary feeding programs; social organization and poverty elimination; economics and finance; policy analysis; and public advocacy. The World Food Prize emphasizes the importance of a nutritious and sustainable food supply for all people. By honoring those who have worked successfully toward this goal, The Prize calls attention to what has been done to improve global food security and to what can be accomplished in the future.  [|Dr. Norman E. Borlaug], winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970 for his work in global agriculture, envisioned a prize that would honor those who have made significant and measurable contributions to improving the world's food supply. Beyond recognizing these people for their personal accomplishments, Borlaug saw The Prize as a means of establishing role models who would inspire others. His vision was realized when The World Food Prize was created in 1986 with sponsorship by General Foods Corporation. Since then, the World Food Prize has honored outstanding individuals who have made vital contributions to improving the quality, quantity, or availability of food throughout the world. Laureates have been recognized from countries around the world, including Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Cape Verde, China, Cuba, Denmark, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Israel, Mexico, Sierra Leone, Switzerland, Uganda, United Kingdom, the United Nations and the United States. The name of the new Laureate(s) is/are made public in a special ceremony each spring at the US State Department in Washington DC, with the Secretary of State presiding. The first Laureate Announcement Ceremony was held in 2004 with Secretary Colin Powell presiding. The Prize is presented each October on or around UN World Food Day (October 16) in a pomp-filled ceremony in the magnificent Iowa State Capitol in Des Moines. In addition to the cash award, the Laureate receives a sculpture designed by the noted artist and designer, Saul Bass. The World Food Prize has become a week-long set of events drawing over 1,000 participants from over 50 countries. In addition to the Laureate Award Ceremony, the World Food Prize series of events include the: Borlaug Dialogue International Symposium; Global Youth Institute for high school students; Iowa Hunger Summit; Laureate Lecture Series; and presentation of the Dr. Norman Borlaug Award for Field Research and Application, endowed by the Rockefeller Foundation. The World Food Prize was initially sponsored by businessman and philanthropist [|John Ruan] Sr. with support from the Governor and State Legislature of Iowa. Mr. Ruan stepped forward to endow The Prize and relocate it to Des Moines in 1990 when its first sponsor withdrew. Without Mr. Ruan's generosity, the Prize and Dr. Borlaug's vision could not have continued. Today, there are over 80 companies, foundations and individuals who are donors to the Foundation. In 2001 John Ruan's son, [|John Ruan III], succeeded his father as chairman of the World Food Prize. The Foundation's president is [|Ambassador Kenneth M. Quinn]. A distinguished international Council of Advisors provides guidance and support.

Public Food Maps
[|Fallen Fruit: A Mapping of Food Resources in Los Angeles] [|Feral Fruit Melbourne] [|Mapping Tucson's Fruit Trees]

Spotlight: Ripe Near Me
http://www.ripenear.me https://radio.adelaide.edu.au/unpicked-fruit [|@RipeNearMe]

Cottage Food
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[|The great organic myths: Why organic foods are an indulgence the world can't afford] //They're not healthier or better for the environment – and they're packed with pesticides. In an age of climate change and shortages, these foods are an indulgence the world can't afford, argues environmental expert Rob Johnston//
 * Organic Food**

[|The great organic myths rebutted]

Biodynamic Agriculture
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biodynamic_agriculture http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rnfirstbite/biodynamic-rice/4888582 http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/rnfirstbite/biodynamic-reactions/4907702 [|The myth of biodynamic agriculture] (PDF)

Biodiversity
The theme for 2008's [|International Day for Biological Diversity (May 22)] connected biodiversity and agriculture. The celebration seeks to highlight sustainable agriculture as a way of protecting biodiversity and feeding the world. According to the CBD, agricultural output has increased over 160% since the 1960s, while the world’s population has more then doubled. Farmers and agricultural producers have done a great job of meeting the challenge of feeding the world, reducing poverty and in many cases contribute to sustaining biodiversity. However, tradeoffs in food production have degraded other ecosystem services.

Climate Change
Look at linkages between food production and climate change. Item. Rodale Institute research shows that organically managed soils can store (sequester) more than 1,000 pounds of carbon per acre, while non-organic systems can cause carbon loss. ([|Source]) http://www.fao.org/climatechange/home/en/

[|Policy Brief: Anchoring Agriculture within a Copenhagen Agreement] (PDF)

Farmers' Markets
Consumers are increasingly interested in learning where their food comes from and knowing the farmers who grow it. Shopping at farmers' markets is an opportunity to directly support farmers and producers. http://www.farmersmarketonline.com http://www.foodconnect.com.au - https://www.facebook.com/pages/Food-Connect/22153122699 http://action.farmland.org/site/PageServer?pagename=about_I_Love_My_Farmers_Market http://blogs.usda.gov/2013/08/08/farmers-markets-teaching-kids-where-food-comes-from http://www.locavored.com/blog/category/farmers-markets/

Food Miles
As consumers around the world become aware of the carbon footprint of their travels and purchases, a new term has appeared. Introducing [|food miles] which track the journey food takes from the farm to the table along with the carbon emissions that are created. Increasingly in Europe labels on food items show food miles. The concept is not without debate.

GM Food
http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/gmfood

Local Food
Regulations and consumer demand are encouraging producers and restaurants to collaborate to track the route from paddock to plate and encouraging [|local food].

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The dialogue began at the [|2008 Rural Tourism Fair] in Oaxaca City, Mexico. With its deep indigenous roots, Mexico has one of the premiere cuisines in the world, noted for its diversity, medicinal traditions and innovative culinary techniques. Throughout 2008 Planeta.com will be updating a number of features that provide background for visitors to the country's traditional markets and those interested in the growing slow food movement.

The tastiest event of the year could well be the celebration of indigenous cuisine that takes place in [|Teotitlán del Valle] in July 2008

Details oaxaca.wikispaces.com/teotitlangastronomia

Questions
What recommendations should travelers be given on choosing food in terms of ethical consequences? What tips should travelers be given for eating in an ethical manner? Language question - How are the words 'foodie' and 'food miles' translated in other languages? Do locals make the correct assumptions about what food travelers want?

Videos
[|Stone Soup (Caldo de Piedra)]

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Facebook
[|Mexican Culinary Traditions] [|Pieminister] [|HoutCuisineFood] [|OrangeRegionalCookingSchool] [|Country-Fresh-Farmers-Market] [|OZCFarm] [|nationalveggieweek] [|Platicando y Cocinando en Español]

wikipedia
[] [] [|Kaiseki] is a traditional multi-course Japanese dinner. [] [] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant:_Impossible http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gluten https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meat_raffle [|palate]

Events
March National Vegetarian Week http://www.nationalvegetarianweek.org - https://www.facebook.com/nationalveggieweek

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Recommended Reading
[|Global Food: Waste Note, Want Not, Feeding the 9 Billion: The tragedy of waste] Rising population combined with improved nutrition standards and shifting dietary preferences will exert pressure for increases in global food supply. Engineers, scientists and agriculturalists have the knowledge, tools and systems that will assist in achieving productivity increases. However, pressure will grow on finite resources of land, energy and water. The potential to provide 60–100% more food by simply eliminating losses, while simultaneously freeing up land, energy and water resources for other uses, is an opportunity that should not be ignored. In order to begin tackling the challenge, the Institution recommends that: 1. The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) works with the international engineering community to ensure governments of developed nations put in place programmes that transfer engineering knowledge, design know-how, and suitable technology to newly developing countries. This will help improve produce handling in the harvest, and immediate post-harvest stages of food production. 2. Governments of rapidly developing countries incorporate waste minimisation thinking into the transport infrastructure and storage facilities currently being planned, engineered and built. 3. Governments in developed nations devise and implement policy that changes consumer expectations. These should discourage retailers from wasteful practices that lead to the rejection of food on the basis of cosmetic characteristics, and losses in the home due to excessive purchasing by consumers.

[|The State of Food Insecurity in the World] raises awareness about global hunger issues, discusses underlying causes of hunger and malnutrition and monitors progress towards hunger reduction targets. [|More info on the FAO website]. http://www.fao.org/publications/e-book-collection/en/

Quotes
One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. - Virginia Woolf

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. - Henny Youngman

Each gorilla has its own voice: you can really tell who’s singing, and if it’s their favourite food, they sing louder. [|Ali Vella-Irving], who looks after gorillas at Toronto Zoo in Canada, says humming and singing is a frequent part of mealtimes, cited in [|Wild gorillas compose happy songs that they hum during meals - New Scientist] https://twitter.com/ronmader/status/861720405022621696

You eat with your eyes first. - Popular saying

Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food. - Hippocrates

Real local food supports the local economy; as the New Economics Foundation found, every £10 spent on food from local businesses generates £25 for the local economy, compared with £14 for every £10 spent in non-local food businesses. A shorter traceability line from field to fork is not reliant on air and shipping freight, so it increases food security. - [|Can we believe labels that claim food is 'local'?]

We're eating the planet. - Jason Clay, [|Economics, Behavior and Biodiversity Loss: Sustainability as a Pre-competitive Issue]

Question - Isn't it about time for the ministries of food and health to share the same office? Andrew Campbell: I doubt if there is an interdepartmental committee in which agricultural and health get together on a regular basis. They're not seen as ships in the same ocean let alone as part of an integrated system. We don't have the information systems and other tools in a coherent policy. [|Bush Telegraph], http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/current/audioonly/bth_20081028.mp3 [|Paddock to Plate: Food, Farming & Victoria's Progress to Sustainability] (PDF)

Public gardens, too, are responding to the demand for knowledge. At Auckland’s Botanic Gardens, for example, staff have just planted the first of a six-stage redevelopment of its edible garden because visitors say they want to see more vegetables. - Maggie Barry, [|Natural born gardners]

We have built our education systems on the model of fast food. This is something Jamie Oliver talked about the other day. You know there are two models of quality assurance in catering. One is fast food, where everything is standardized. The other are things like Zagat and Michelin restaurants, where everything is not standardized, they're customized to local circumstances. And we have sold ourselves into a fast food model of education. And it's impoverishing our spirit and our energies as much as fast food is depleting our physical bodies. Ken Richardson, [|Bring on the learning revolution]

Our focus is all about social and cultural, not just plain economics ... The market out there doesn't just want a mass produced product, but they want the story behind the product. They want to know there are gains to indigenous people from where it comes. - Pat Torres, wild harvest businesswoman based in Broome, [|The future of bush food], [|detail]

Der Mensch ist, was er ißt. (you are what you eat) - German proverb

Kissin’ wears out, cooking don’t. - Pennsylvania Dutch proverb

Grow pears for your heirs. - Popular saying

Local food is about the future. By supporting local farmers today, you can help ensure that there will be farms in your community tomorrow, and that future generations will have access to nourishing, flavorful and abundant food. - [|Bill McKibben]

Michael Polan [|Food Rules for Healthy People and Planet] June 2010 Award-winning food writer **Michael Pollan** shows how we can become more mindful of what we eat, and how we can make food choices that are better for ourselves and our environment. #rsapollan http://michaelpollan.com http://twitter.com/michaelpollan http://www.ted.com/talks/michael_pollan_gives_a_plant_s_eye_view.html

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Recent Events
[|Food provenance for the provinces] - [|NZTRIProvenenacePreso.ppt] - [|Greig Buckley 25 June 2010.mp3]

June 2011 Dublin, Ireland: [|Sustainable Tourism + Local Food Enterprise] [|map]

Who's Who
[|Slow Food UK] works to ensure good, clean and fair food is a right for everyone. By good, clean and fair we mean that food should taste good, that it should be produced in a clean way which fully respects the environment, human health and animal welfare, and that food producers are paid a fair wage.

Fortune Cookies
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_cookie http://entropymag.org/good-books-are-friends-who-are-always-ready-to-talk-to-us-7-best-fortune-cookie-messages-from-editor-carla-gannis http://www.fortunecookiemessage.com

Rum https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2ovCBSSoUPw

World Food Day (2011)
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Posters

 * English: [|Food Prices: From Crisis to Stability (World Food Day 2011)]
 * Spanish: [|Precios de los Alimentos (Dia Mundial de la Alimentacion 2011)]
 * German:[| Preise für Lebensmittel: Von der Krise zu Stabilität (Welternährungstag 2011)]

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 * Oct 17-18 Español** Desde el Hotel Sevilla Palace (Mexico DF), se transmitirá el Foro Internacional sobre Seguridad Alimentaria y Volatilidad de los Precios de los Alimentos: panorama, perspectivas y recomendaciones.

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Misc
Nearly 1/5 of all greenhouse gas is generated by livestock production, more than transportation.

Fasting http://www.scpr.org/news/2017/05/01/71391/fasting-studies-clash-with-our-desire-to-eat-what/

World Food Programme
http://www1.wfp.org http://www1.wfp.org/countries/south-sudan http://www1.wfp.org/south-sudan-emergency https://twitter.com/WFP https://www.facebook.com/WorldFoodProgramme https://www.instagram.com/worldfoodprogramme_official

The Kitchen
http://www.foodnetwork.com/videos/full-episodes/the-kitchen http://www.foodnetwork.com/shows/the-kitchen/episodes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kitchen_(TV_series)

Artwork / Cue Yourself
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Videos
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misc
http://www.chowhound.com/topics/508041

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percutaneous_endoscopic_gastrostomy