Visitor's Guide 2024-2025

A TASTE OF TWO WORLDS

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A new cookbook focused on foods native to Maine, Greenland, and the Wabanaki, Maine’s first people, was nominated in a record five categories at the 2023 Gourmand World Cookbook Fair held in Saudi Arabia, winning three including Best Arctic Cookbook in the World. University of Southern Maine students in the Tourism and Hospitality program worked with students from the Inuili Cooking School in Greenland to create the award-winning cookbook which contains recipes in three languages. Also involved were a dozen Maine chefs and food producers, Wabanaki Public Health, and various Greenlandic organizations. Food is a language that transcends cultures. Some argue we have lost the connection between food and the ways it is raised, grown, harvested, and processed. But cooking can reestablish that vital connection. One of the project’s goals was to represent how native foods, like fish, root vegetables, and berries are prepared both similarly and differently in Arctic regions. The “taste of two worlds” refers not just to the countries themselves but the modern and traditional cultures straddled by young people in both Maine and Greenland. A Taste of Two Worlds is available for purchase on Amazon or you can download a complete pdf for free at maine.edu/thor/cookbook-project/

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