Mobile Matanza

The first of its kind in the State of New Mexico and one of only three in the Nation, the “Mobile Matanza” is TCEDC’s latest tool and will complement the Taos Food Center in providing opportunity for livestock growers to increase income through commercial sale of meat. The Mobile Matanza project will offer inspection at every stage of animal processing as well as information and educational trainings designed by local livestock growers through the Livestock Sector Opportunity Program.

MoGro

MoGro, The Mobile Grocery store, uses a temperature-controlled truck to provide access to healthy, affordable food in communities that currently lack access due to physical location and cost.

More Edible Architecture

A Photo's Effects competition...
The rules of this game are thus:
Take any image of a building, structure or other form of architecture and swap parts or all of it with something edible.

Heros

We need a Jamie Oliver of architecture to save us from uninspiring design says Living Architecture founder Alain de Botton - Britain urgently needs a Jamie Oliver figure to do for buildings what the famous chef did for school dinners, says Alain de Botton, one of 11 experts on the Farrell Review commissioned by culture minister Ed Vaizey earlier this year.

“We need a Jamie Oliver of architecture because architecture is now where food was 20 years ago: in desperate need of improvement, which will happen when people grow fussier about being served substandard stuff,” said Mr de Botton.

The Gingerbread House

The combination of food & shelter a Christmas tradition with the making of gingerbread houses. 

Records of honey cakes can be traced to ancient Rome. Food historians ratify that ginger has been seasoning foodstuffs and drinks since antiquity. It is believed gingerbread was first baked in Europe at the end of the 11th century, when returning crusaders brought back the custom of spicy bread from the Middle East. Ginger was not only tasty, it had properties that helped preserve the bread. According to the French legend, gingerbread was brought to Europe in 992 by the Armenian monk, later saint, Gregory of Nicopolis (Gregory Makar). Gingerbread, as we know it today, descends from Medieval European culinary traditions. Gingerbread was also shaped into different forms by monks in Franconia, Germany in the 13th century. Lebkuchen bakers are recorded as early as 1296 in Ulm and 1395 in Nuremberg. Nuremberg was recognized as the "Gingerbread Capital of the World" when in the 1600s the guild started to employ master bakers and skilled workers to create complicated works of art from gingerbread.Medieval bakers used carved boards to create elaborate designs. During the 13th century, the custom spread across Europe.Gingerbread figurines date back to the 15th century, and figural biscuit-making was practised in the 16th century. The first documented instance offigure-shaped gingerbread biscuits is from the court of Elizabeth I of England: she had gingerbread figures made in the likeness of some of her important guests.

The gingerbread bakers were gathered into professional baker guilds. In many European countries gingerbread bakers were a distinct component of the bakers' guild. Gingerbread baking developed into an acknowledged profession. In the 17th century only professional gingerbread bakers were permitted to bake gingerbread except at Christmas and Easter, when anyone was allowed to bake it.

The tradition of making decorated gingerbread houses started in Germany in the early 1800s. According to certain researchers, the first gingerbread houses were the result of the well-known Grimm's fairy tale "Hansel and Gretel", in which the two children abandoned in the forest found an edible house made of bread with sugar decorations. After this book was published, German bakers began baking ornamented fairy-tale houses of lebkuchen(gingerbread). These became popular during Christmas, a tradition that came to America with Pennsylvanian German immigrants. According to other food historians, the Grimm brothers were speaking about something that already existed. ^{-- wikipiedia}

Inforgraphic - Food Waste

new infographic for DebtAdvisoryCentre.co.uk that explores the true cost of food waste

Food Tours

Food and Place - local restaurants infused with entertaining historical and cultural details

Farm Land Grab - CIS

Institutions are blazing a trail in CIS farming... "In most parts of the world, farming has traditionally been the domain of families and vertically integrated agro-processors. But the food price spikes in 2007-08 highlighted imbalances in the global supply and demand of food commodities, and doubled the price of wheat. Since then, interest in farming from a new class of institutional investors — including hedge, endowment, pension, private equity and sovereign wealth funds — has surged. - See more at: http://farmlandgrab.org/post/view/22867#sthash.IK43PIJ4.dpuf"

Gingerbread Museums

The two food artists built recreations of 7 famous museums including the Guggenheim in New York, the Tate Modern in London, the Louvre in Paris, the Karuizawa Museum in Nagano, Museum Aan de Stroom in Antwerp, the Maxxi in Rome, and Museo Soumaya in Mexico City

Picnic Pavilion

New pavilions are revitalizing Dallas parks