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Episode 147: Food Hub: Reviving the Community with the Power of Food
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43 minutes
Released:
Feb 25, 2019
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Our guest is Taichi Manabe, chief operating officer of Food Hub, which is a unique project to revive the declining community in Shikoku island of Japan through food.
Taichi wanted to change the world through design, but he realized that food has a bigger and stronger influence for his purpose. He has gotten involved in multiple fascinating food projects before he became the COO of Food Hub, which is based in a small town with a population of 5,300 in Shikoku Island.
We will discuss why food is important for our community, and Taichi's very local yet global projects!!!
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Taichi wanted to change the world through design, but he realized that food has a bigger and stronger influence for his purpose. He has gotten involved in multiple fascinating food projects before he became the COO of Food Hub, which is based in a small town with a population of 5,300 in Shikoku Island.
We will discuss why food is important for our community, and Taichi's very local yet global projects!!!
Japan Eats is powered by Simplecast.
Released:
Feb 25, 2019
Format:
Podcast episode
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