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Global Food Heritage Awards Honorees

"Food history is as important as a Baroque church.  Governments should recognize this cultural heritage and protect traditional foods.  A cheese is as worthy of preserving as a 16th century building."

--Carlo Petrini


Date Palm
Symbol of Global Food Heritage Preservation Project

Food Historian/Preservationist

Carlo Petrini

Founder of the International Slow Food Movement
Slow Food International



National  Food Heritage

France

The people of France win the first national award for their successful dedication to preserving their  culinary traditions and history at all levels, through national initiatives such as Sites Remarquables du Gout, Sites of Exceptional Culinary Taste, as well as regional food-focussed tourism undertakings. France boasts more food-related museums and sites than any other country.  The French people's continuing love of their land, farm and food traditions is manifest in their support of countless societies dedicated to promotion of local specialites,  their patronage of local fresh food markets, and their willingness to financially sustain rural areas and quality food ingredients.  Here are some of the many examples of French Food Heritage Sites.


National food heritage preservation association

Sites Remarquable du Gout
(Sites of Exceptional Culinary Taste)
Description of sites

France Confreries
Gastronomy Societies

Global Food Heritage
Award Winners from France

Salt Marshes of the Guerande Peninsula
La Maison des Paludiers
Saille
La Maison du Sel
Pradel
Musee des Marais Salants
Batz-sur-Mer

Agropolis Museum
International food museum
Montpelier


Cassissium
Vedrenne
Black Currant Museum
Nuits St George


Moutarderie
Ets. Fallot
Food heritage business & mustardworks museum
Beaune


Editions Equinoxe
Publishers of food heritage books
Barbentane

Some other French food heritage organizations

Salon International de l'Agriculture
Paris
Rungis Marche International
World's largest food market
Rungis


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Regional or State Food Heritage

New Mexico

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Community Food Heritage

To be announced


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Food Origin Heritage Site

Salt Marshes of the Guerande Peninsula

This award recognizes the achievement of the people of France's Guerande Peninsula in preserving their salt marshes and traditional salt extraction industry.  The following three separate entities model how to protect and interpret historic food-related sites for the public.


La Maison des Paludiers
Saille, France

La Maison du Sel
Pradel, France

Musee des Marais Salants
Batz-sur-Mer, France

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Farm/Agriculture/Kitchen Garden Heritage Site

Living History Farms
Urbandale, Iowa

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General Food Museum: Non-profit

Agropolis Museum
Montpelier, France

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General Food Museum: Corporate

Alimentarium

Vevey, Switzerland

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Single Subject Food Museum: Corporate

Cassissium
Nuits St George, France


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Internet Food-Related E-Museum

Sainsbury's Archives Virtual Museum
United Kingdom

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Food History Exhibition: Temporary

UCLA
Fowler Museum of Cultural History

Los Angeles, California, USA

This award recognizes a series of food and culture- themed exhibits that consistently have been of the highest quality.  The Fowler has produced a pioneering exhibition about rice as well as several food-related exhibits in the past.


The Art of Rice: Spirit and Sustenance in Asia

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Food Business Heritage

Moutarderie
Ets. Fallot
Beaune, France

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Culinary Heritage

Culinary Archives & Museum
at Johnson & Wales University

Providence, Rhode Island, USA

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Farmland Preservation & Sustainable Agriculture

The Land Institute
Salina, Kansas, USA

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Heritage Seed & Animal Breed Preservation

Native Seeds Search

Tucson, AZ, USA

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Director's Award

New York Food Museum
New York, NY, USA

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Food Heritage Media Awards

Magazine


Gastronomica
Berkeley, CA, USA


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Newspaper

The Guardian/Observer
United Kingdom


Series on Global Fishing Industry

Observer Food Monthly
(archived from April 2001 to present)

shared with

Christian Science Monitor
Boston,MA USA


Report: At the Heart of Hunger in Africa
including a photojournalism feature

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Radio

The Splendid Table
American Public Media
St Paul, MN  USA

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Television

CBS Sunday Morning
New York, NY USA

This weekly network broadcast has consistently covered food-related stories for over a quarter of a century. For years this pioneering programing has stood alone, until the advent of Public Television's cooking shows and more recently,the cable food networks.


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Publishing


Prospect Books
Totnes, United Kingdom

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Internet Site

Food Reference Website
Key West, Florida USA


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Festival Featuring Food Heritage

Sun Mountain Gathering
Santa Fe, New Mexico USA


CATEGORIES NOT YET AWARDED

Restaurant Heritage

Academic Institution or Scholarly Association

Non-Governmental Organization Food Exhibit

Single Subject Food Museum: Non-profit


Food/Farm Tourism and/or Entertainment

Food Heritage Humanitarian Organization

Media: 

Film featuring food heritage

  Blog featuring food heritage


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Food and art

 

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Food exhibits within
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Food heritage public monuments

 

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Food museum historians and curators

 

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Food business heritage sites

 

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Historic food shops

 

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Food heritage exhibit design

 


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