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Ver-o-peso Market in Belém. UNESCO's City of Gastronomy project is part of the wider Creative Cities Network.The Network was launched in 2004, and organizes member cities into seven creative fields: Crafts and Folk Art, Design, Film, Gastronomy, Literature, Media Arts, and Music.
There are 26 World Heritage Sites in the United States, with a further 17 on the tentative list. [3] The first sites in the United States added to the list were Mesa Verde National Park and Yellowstone National Park, both at the second session of the World Heritage Committee, held in Washington, D.C., in 1978. [4]
UNESCO established its Lists of Intangible Cultural Heritage with the aim of ensuring better protection of important intangible cultural heritages worldwide and the awareness of their significance. [1] This list is published by the Intergovernmental Committee for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage, the members of which are elected ...
Mediterranean diet. The Mediterranean diet is a concept first invented in 1975 by the American biologist Ancel Keys and chemist Margaret Keys. The diet took inspiration from the supposed eating habits and traditional food typical of Turkey, much of the rest of Greece, and southern Italy, and formulated in the early 1960s. [1]
Tunisian cuisine, the cuisine of Tunisia, consists of the cooking traditions, ingredients, recipes and techniques developed in Tunisia since antiquity. It is mainly a blend of Mediterranean and native Punic - Berber cuisine. Historically, Tunisian cuisine witnessed influence and exchanges with many cultures and nations like Italians ...
With 60 selected areas, Italy is the country with the most sites, followed by China with 59, and Germany with 54. [ 2 ] Of the 195 states parties of the World Heritage Convention, 27 have no properties inscribed on the World Heritage List: The Bahamas, Bhutan, Brunei, Burundi, the Comoros, the Cook Islands, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini ...
A cuisine is a characteristic style of cooking practices and traditions, [1] often associated with a specific culture. European cuisine refers collectively to the cuisines of Europe. [2] European cuisine includes cuisines of Europe, but can arguably also include non- indigenous cuisines of North America, Australasia, Oceania, and Latin America ...
The World Heritage emblem, used to identify properties protected by the World Heritage Convention [ 1 ] World Heritage Sites are landmarks and areas with legal protection by an international convention administered by UNESCO for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance. The sites are judged to contain "cultural and natural ...