Food Culture in Spotlight on UNESCO Heritage ListPARIS, Dec 23 2020 (IPS) - Cuisine formed a notable portion of the latest inscriptions on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, with hawker food in Singapore and couscous traditions in North Africa being celebrated. Hawker culture is “present throughout Singapore”, with these food centres seen as a kind of “community dining room”, officials said. Hawker centres grew out of street-food culture, housing cooks who provide meals in a bustling communal setting with different stalls. Food was also indirectly highlighted with the inscription of “Zlakusa pottery making, hand-wheel pottery making in the village of Zlakusa”. However, we were still able to take our music to the world, through technology.”Grange said that hosting the huge virtual meeting of the Intangible Cultural Heritage committee posed some technological challenges, but nothing that could not be overcome.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 23, 2020 11:37 UTC