Completed Competitive Grant

Taste of Place Project, Phase II: Outreach

Project ID: 2006-M13

Abstract

Information gathered in a 2005 Leopold Center-funded project about special Iowa-based foods receives wider dissemination on a web site containing facts, photos, and interviews with the food producers.

Key Question: How can we publicize those unique foods that provide a "taste" of Iowa?

Findings: This project created a web site to encourage Iowans and non-Iowans to explore Iowa's foods and the places that produce them. The foods and stories on the web site may encourage people to use food as a way to explore different cultures, those familiar and new ones.

Lead investigator: Rachelle H. Saltzman, Iowa Arts Council

Year of grant completion: 2007

This competitive grant project was part of the Leopold Center's Marketing Initiative.

Topics: Agritourism and place-based food, Community-based food systems, Supply networks

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