Food Smart Dublin
European Observatory
A modern lifestyle is connected with safe, healthy and tasty food. Seafood is increasingly a popular choice, especially after the sushi revolution of the last couple of decades in western Europe and the emergence of many celebrity chefs. But the change has come with dirty consequences as a healthy diet puts additional pressure on a marine ecosystem already heavily impacted by fishing, waste, greenhouse gases, climate change, etc. In this IRC COALESCE funded project, we build a framework of knowledge exchange and action that addresses the global and topical issue of sustainable food from the oceans responding to the Report on Food from the Oceans (2017) in an Irish context with a focus on Dublin City. Food Smart Dublin is a concept to promote sustainable seafood consumption by building on the intangible coastal cultural heritage while engaging with innovative chefs and educationalists.
Food Smart Dublin supports the development of capacity in the research system for interdisciplinary and challenge-based collaboration beyond academia. We have assembled a multidisciplinary team from the humanities, social and natural sciences. Our expert team consists of a historian, coastal biologist, marine ecologist and a social scientist.
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Archival work and selection of historical seafood recipes
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Participants complete online questionaire
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Food industry partner adapts selected recipes to modern taste
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Interactive workshop with Eco-Unesco on sustainable seafood
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Participants try monthly recipes at home
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Cookbook publication as project flagship
Accessing the historical knowledge and ecological resources of the capital of an island nation in an innovative partnership with Niall Sabongi, a pioneering wholesaler and restaurateurs and ECO-UNESCO, Ireland’s Youth organisation we hope to advance a broader agenda for a food-smart Dublin.
We argue that a change in human consumption towards eating at lower trophic levels may be helped by discovering forgotten cultural practices and tapping into locally-sourced marine resources. We set out a framework of knowledge exchange and production between academia, businesses, and civil society to promote and assist healthy and ecologically sustainable living using digital tools and an interdisciplinary approach. In identifying historical recipes of local seafood that can be innovated and used in appetizing dishes we hope to stimulate sustainable food practices.
To learn more about Food Smart Dublin visit the project website @ https://www.tcd.ie/tceh/projects/foodsmartdublin/.
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