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The wonders of food tourism through Mediterranean diet V. M. Salgaocar Institute of International Hospitality Education (VMSIIHE) held the fifth edition of its online series ‘Culinary Conversation’ with Chef Abilio Guerreiro, Chef Trainer and Culinary Course Coordinator - School of Hospitality and TourismAlgarve, Tourism of Portugal. Over an hour-long online session, students of VMSIIHE interacted with Chef Abilio on everything related to the Mediterranean diet and food tourism. To a question asked by student Rowan Gonsalves on what measures young chefs should implement towards sustainable food management, Abilio said, “We need to reduce waste and animal consumption due to climate change. For example, in Portugal, a law is passed wherein it bans plastic usage at restaurants and hotels. Also, we need to use technology innovatively in order to reduce energy consumption”. “Food tourism is about being authentic, whether the tourist is exploring a country, region, city, or neighborhood; they are still searching to find a sense of the place through its food. 55% of culinary travelers are motivated by the search for authenticity of
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cuisine, one has to defend the local cuisine by incorporating trends and innovating it”, added Chef Abilio. He pointed out that culinary travelers visiting Portugal love visiting wineries, markets, and farms, participating in cooking classes, food tours, special dining, and love attending food-related events and festivals. 63% of these travelers love clicking and sharing food-related pictures. Speaking further on the Mediterranean diet, Chef Abilio Guerreiro said that the diet involves a set of skills, knowledge, rituals, symbols, and traditions concerning crops, harvesting, fishing, animal husbandry, and cooking. It is a millenary diet that consists of ingredients that are locally sourced and very high in nutritional content such as fresh fish, shrimp, octopus, olives, olive
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AUTHOR: ADAM J. MEAD PUBLISHER: HARRIMAN HOUSE PUBLISHING
THE COMPLETE FINANCIAL HISTORY OF BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY The complete financial history of Berkshire Hathaway is available under one cover in chronological format, in a book authored by Adam J. Mead. Beginning at the origins of the predecessor companies in the textile industry, the reader can examine the development of the modernday conglomerate year-byyear and decade-by-decade, watching as the struggling textile company morphs into what it has become today. This comprehensive analysis distils over 10,000 pages of research material, including Buffett’s Chairman’s letters, Berkshire Hathaway annual reports and SEC filings, annual meeting transcripts, subsidiary financials, and more. The analysis of each year is supplemented with Buffett’s own commentary where relevant, and examines all important acquisitions, investments, and other capital allocation decisions. The structure of the book allows one to follow the logic, reasoning, and capital allocation decisions
made by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger from the very beginning. The author, Mead is the CEO and Chief Investment Officer of Mead Capital Management, LLC, and a New Hampshire-based Registered Investment Advisory that he founded in 2014. Mead spent over a decade in banking in commercial credit, and has been investing in public securities markets since 2004. He owned two small businesses during college, and grew up in a family of small business owners
oil, and salt. Eating together is the foundation of the cultural
identity and continuity of communities throughout the Mediterranean basin
Goa Institute of Management achieves an outstanding record in its campus placement performance. Highest salary of `30.17 Lakhs per annum which is a new GIM record Goa Institute of Management (GIM) has been recording high salary packages consistently for the past five years. This year the trend continues. The leading B-school attracted 70 industry leaders and pioneers which made a total of 200+ offers to a talented pool of 247 students from GIM. Despite the lockdown and the dip in the overall economy, the year saw an increase in the total number of companies that e-visited the GIM campus to recruit
from its human capital. This has led to extraordinary placements for the year. - PGDM BDA (Big Data Analytics): Highest salary of `30.17 Lakhs per annum which is a new GIM record. - PGDM HCM (Healthcare Management): Highest salary of `26 Lakhs per annum, beating the benchmarks of last year. - PGDM BIFS (Banking, Insurance and Financial Services): The inaugural batch itself recorded a median salary of `11 Lakhs per annum. Information Technology
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(IT) and IT enabled Services (ITeS) were the leading recruiters followed by the Banking and Financial Services industry (BFSI). Said Ajit Parulekar, Director, GIM, “Despite continued downward trends in the economy over the last two years, GIM’s 100% placement record is evidence of the institute’s high esteem in the job market and the recognition its graduates receive in the corporate world. With almost three decades of developing future leaders in its classrooms, GIM has
shown admirable flexibility in shifting to a virtual program, without dropping any of its high educational standards.” Even among the turmoil and apprehension of the last couple of years, GIM graduates have received 100% placement across all Post Graduate Diploma in Management (PGDM) streams. This remarkable feat has been made possible by the collective and arduous efforts of GIM’s in-house Placement Cell, along with its faculty and industry liaisons
