My first blog is about food ? - no wonder because I decided to make this a Food-Blog. With time I will explore how my passion and love for cooking grew and how some recognition came to me from around the country.
I wish to start writing about the Heritage of Food and then slowly narrow down to "our" heritage of food.I also wish to cover popular,fusion,experimental,methods,pictures and food arts in my blog.
The Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage are established by UNESCO aiming to ensure the better protection of important intangible cultural heritages worldwide and the awareness of their significance.Through a compendium of the different oral and intangible treasures of humankind worldwide, the program aims to draw attention to the importance of safeguarding intangible heritage, which has been identified by UNESCO as an essential component and a repository of cultural diversity and creative expression.
As defined by UNESCO intangible cultural heritages include oral traditions, performing arts, social practices, rituals, festive events, knowledge and practices concerning nature and the universe or the knowledge and skills to produce traditional crafts. The first entries were added to the list in 2008.
Of course, food is culture and very few would not accept this as a fact. However, since numerous other cultural heritages are accepted as world heritage, it is important that food culture is not passed over. The UNESCO World heritage list is probably well known to most, but there is also another list called the Intangible Cultural Heritage list intended to safeguard immaterial cultural heritage. In this list, at least four entries relate closely to food and food culture.
Recently, UNESCO inscribed two food-related traditions/cultures in their list of Intangible Cultural Heritage. One might say that finally food has officially received status as a true part of our common cultural heritage.
Traditional Mexican cuisine (inscribed 2010)
The Mediterranean diet (Greece, Italy, Morocco, Spain, inscribed 2010)
Gingerbread craft from Northern Croatia (inscribed 2010)
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