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Q & A with AddisEats
16 Apr 2014

Q & A with AddisEats

by Sam Chapple Sokol | posted in: Posts | 1

I recently had the the pleasure of speaking with two culinary entrepreneurs, Eliza Richman and Xavier Curtis of AddisEats, a company giving food tours of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I asked them a few questions about their background and what inspired … Continued

Addis Ababa, AddisEats, culinary diplomacy, Ethiopia, Food Tours, Gastrotourism

What is Culinary Diplomacy?

Culinary Diplomacy is the use of food and cuisine as instruments to create cross-cultural understanding in the hopes of improving interactions and cooperation. That's an academic way of saying using food to get along with people, to talk with people and to get to know them better. Hillary Clinton once called food "the oldest diplomatic tool."

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