Belgium
- Beer culture in Belgium
- Safeguarding the carillon culture: preservation, transmission, exchange and awareness-raising
Blog Posts:
- Bruges: The city of beer, canals, and a beautiful beguinage
- Foods of Belgium & the Dutch
- Ghent: The city of Van Eyck, belfry, and french fries
Cuba
I have never been to Cuba, but I am of Cuban heritage (all my grandparents) and cassava is an essential part of the Noche Buena feast. We even traveled with cassava bread to have our Christmas Eve dinner in Germany (pictured above).
Germany
- Craft techniques and customary practices of cathedral workshops, or Bauhütten, in Europe, know-how, transmission, development of knowledge and innovation
- Organ craftsmanship and music
- The practice of Modern Dance in Germany – although I did not do this in Germany, I practiced modern dance all throughout high school + my sister does adult dance classes in Germany
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Greece
- Mediterranean diet (same as Italy & Spain)
- Tinian marble craftsmanship
- Art of dry stone construction, knowledge and techniques
- Byzantine chant
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Italy
- Art of Neapolitan ‘Pizzaiuolo’
- Mediterranean diet (same as Greece & Spain)
- Alpinism
- Truffle hunting and extraction in Italy, traditional knowledge and practice – I didn’t get to go on a truffle hunt but I certainly ate a lot of truffles while in Lombardy
- The art of glass beads
- Transhumance, the seasonal droving of livestock along migratory routes in the Mediterranean and in the Alps – I saw sheep & a shepherd house in the Alps, but I did not participate in any shepherding activities
- The practice of opera singing in Italy – I saw an opera in Novara, oddly enough it was Macbeth done very differently than Shakespeare could have imagined
- Italian cooking, between sustainability and biocultural diversity
- Manual bell ringing – I heard PLENTY of church bells in Italy (same ads Spain)
Blog Posts:
- Italian Food
- A Weekend in Naples
- Happy Halloween! A Cabin in the Woods Weekend
- The Churches of Florence
- Monday in Rome, Part I: Church Hopping
Mexico
- Traditional Mexican cuisine – ancestral, ongoing community culture, the Michoacán paradigm
- Indigenous festivity dedicated to the dead – I didn’t see them first hand because it was not the season but saw the cemeteries
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Mongolia
I have never been to Mongolia (one day!), but I attended a week-long summer institute in Boulder, Colorado on the Mongols which included a performance by Ajnai Ensemble, a Mongolian Morin Khuur group.
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The Netherlands
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Spain
- Mediterranean diet (same as Greece & Italy)
- Fiesta of the patios in Cordova
- Flamenco
- Manual bell ringing (same as Spain)
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Switzerland
- Craftsmanship of mechanical watchmaking and art mechanics
- Avalanche risk management – I was in the Swiss mountains during winter and did not die by avalanche…counts?
- Alpine pasture season
