Salone del Gusto

Fall Break Part I: Terre Madre

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November 1st 2008
My fall break was great. It all started off in Turin, Italy (think back to the winter olympics '06) and that in itself was pretty cool. It was for an event called Terre Madre & Salone del Gusto. So basically it's an event or a huge meeting held once every two years all about saving and preserving foods from disappearing off the earth (think like the endangered species of the animal world) and sust ... read more

Europe » Italy » Piedmont » Turin

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Italy became a nation-state in 1861 when the city-states of the peninsula, along with Sardinia and Sicily, were united under King Victor EMMANUEL II. An era of parliamentary government came to a close in the early 1920s when Benito MUSSOLINI establis... ... read more