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Culinary Diplomacy on The Splendid Table
12 Feb 2014

Culinary Diplomacy on The Splendid Table
by Sam Chapple Sokol | posted in: Posts | 0

Big news in the world of Culinary Diplomacy — there was a segment on The Splendid Table, the wonderful food radio show on American Public Media and broadcast on NPR, about it. I was interviewed by Rebecca Sheir about the … Continued

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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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