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Lauren Wildbolz
Lauren Wildbolz (born 17 March 1981), is a Swiss Veganism, vegan culinary expert, cook, entrepreneur and author of vegan cookbooks. The main topics of her work include veganism, Organic farming, organic and environmentally friendly food as well as animal welfare and the future of nutrition. Early life and education Lauren Wildbolz was born to Swiss fashion photographer Jost Wildbolz and model Sandra Wildbolz on 17 March 1981, in Zürich. The first exposure to the topics later defining her career happened at age 14 when reading information about cruelty to animals, animal suffering, leading to adopting a Vegetarianism, vegetarian diet. Wildbolz passed her entrance exam at the F+F School for Art and Media Design Zurich, but soon after decided to follow her passion for diving and worked as a diving instructor abroad, where she trained as a technical diving, technical diver. She also worked as a vegetarian cook on a ship. Upon her return to Switzerland, she graduated with a bache ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zürich
Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The Urban agglomeration, urban area was home to 1.45 million people (2020), while the Zurich Metropolitan Area, Zurich metropolitan area had a total population of 2.1 million (2020). Zurich is a hub for railways, roads, and air traffic. Both Zurich Airport and Zürich Hauptbahnhof, Zurich's main railway station are the largest and busiest in the country. Permanently settled for over 2,000 years, Zurich was founded by the Roman Empire, Romans, who called it '. However, early settlements have been found dating back more than 6,400 years (although this only indicates human presence in the area and not the presence of a town that early). During the Middle Ages, Zurich gained the independent and privileged status of imperial immediacy and, in 1519 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fine Art
In European academic traditions, fine art (or, fine arts) is made primarily for aesthetics or creative expression, distinguishing it from popular art, decorative art or applied art, which also either serve some practical function (such as pottery or most metalwork) or is generally of limited artistic quality in order to appeal to the masses. In the aesthetic theories developed in the Italian Renaissance, the highest art was that which allowed the full expression and display of the artist's imagination, unrestricted by any of the practical considerations involved in, say, making and decorating a teapot. It was also considered important that making the artwork did not involve dividing the work between different individuals with specialized skills, as might be necessary with a piece of furniture, for example. Even within the fine arts, there was a hierarchy of genres based on the amount of creative imagination required, with history painting placed higher than still life. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Plant-based Diet
A plant-based diet is a diet consisting mostly or entirely of plant-based foods. It encompasses a wide range of dietary patterns that contain low amounts of animal products and high amounts of fiber-rich plant products such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, herbs and spices. Plant-based diets may also be vegan or vegetarian, but do not have to be, as they are defined in terms of high frequency of plants and low frequency of animal food consumption. Terminology Origin of the term "plant-based diet" is attributed to Cornell University nutritional biochemist T. Colin Campbell who presented his diet research at the US National Institutes of Health in 1980. Campbell's research about a plant-based diet extended from '' The China Project'', a decade-long study of dietary practices in rural China, giving evidence that a diet low in animal protein and fat, and high in plant foods, could reduce the incidence of several diseases. In 2005, Campbell and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catering
Catering is the business of providing food services at a remote site or a site such as a hotel, hospital, pub, aircraft, cruise ship, park, festival, filming location or film studio. History of catering The earliest account of major services being catered in the United States was an event for William Howe of Philadelphia in 1778. The event served local foods that were a hit with the attendees, who eventually popularized catering as a career. The official industry began to be recognized around the 1820s, with the caterers being disproportionately African-American. The catering business began to form around 1820, centered in Philadelphia. Robert Bogle The industry began to professionalize under Robert Bogle who is recognized as "the originator of catering." Catering was originally done by servants of wealthy elites. Butlers and house slaves, who were often black, were in a good position to become caterers. Essentially, caterers in the 1860s were "public butlers" as they orga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zineb Hattab
Zineb Hattab, also known as Zizi Hattab, (born July 23, 1989) is a Moroccan-Spanish chef and the owner of plant-based restaurant KLE in Zurich, Switzerland. Hattab was selected “discovery of the year” by Gault Millau on her restaurant's opening year in 2020 and was the first vegan chef in Switzerland to be awarded with a green and a red Michelin star. Hattab's cooking is noted for its intense flavors and complex balanced dishes in a casual setup. Early life Hattab was born in Girona, Spain, to immigrant parents from Morocco. They had moved to Costa Brava during the 1980s. She grew up in Blanes, a small town by the Mediterranean Sea. In 2007, Hattab moved to Barcelona to study engineering. During her studies, she lived in a student dorm where she started cooking for her friends and family. Career After moving to Switzerland in 2012, Hattab worked for two years as a software developer in an engineering firm. In 2014 at the age of 24, she decided to leave her corporate lif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Der Spiegel
(, , stylized in all caps) is a German weekly news magazine published in Hamburg. With a weekly circulation of about 724,000 copies in 2022, it is one of the largest such publications in Europe. It was founded in 1947 by John Seymour Chaloner, a British army officer, and Rudolf Augstein, a former ''Wehrmacht'' radio operator who was recognized in 2000 by the International Press Institute as one of the fifty World Press Freedom Heroes. is known in German-speaking countries mostly for its investigative journalism. It has played a key role in uncovering many political scandals such as the ''Spiegel'' affair in 1962 and the Flick affair in the 1980s. The news website by the same name was launched in 1994 under the name '' Spiegel Online'' with an independent editorial staff. Today, the content is created by a shared editorial team and the website uses the same media brand as the printed magazine. History The first edition of was published in Hanover on Saturday, 4 Januar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Lockdowns
During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, a number of Non-pharmaceutical intervention (epidemiology), non-pharmaceutical interventions, particularly lockdowns (encompassing stay-at-home orders, curfews, quarantines, and similar societal restrictions), were COVID-19 lockdowns by country, implemented in numerous countries and territories around the world. By April 2020, about half of the world's population was under some form of lockdown, with more than 3.9 billion people in more than 90 countries or territories having been asked or ordered to stay at home by their governments. In addition to the health effects of lockdown restrictions, researchers had found the lockdowns may have reduced Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on crime, crime and violence by armed non-state actors, such as the Islamic State, and other terrorist groups. In addition, lockdowns had increased the uptake of telecommuting, reduced airborne pollution, and increased adoption of digital payment s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klubschule Migros
Klubschule is a group of adult education programs initiated by Adele and Gottlieb Duttweiler. The literally ''club school'' is a brand of the Swiss Migros group which provides courses and programmes at about 50 locations throughout Switzerland. History Gottlieb Duttweiler and his wife Adele Duttweiler founded the present Migros group, and in 1948 the Migros cooperative started to provide language courses for its members. Today, more than 600 different courses are offered by the Klubschule program, being the largest further education institution in Switzerland. "Providing access to education" for the general public, companies and public services has been an important social and cultural goal. People attend a course or a training programme at affordable prices that are subsidised through the Migros ''Kulturprozent'' system, i.e. by one percent of the turnover of the Migros. As of 2014, Klubschule has a staff of about 1,500 employees and 7,500 course instructors, which held 53,300 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beobachter (magazine)
''Beobachter'' (, ''Observer'') is a German-language Swiss medium with a focus on law and justice. History and profile The magazine was founded in 1926 by Max Ras as ''Der Schweizerische Beobachter'' and first distributed in 1927 as a free newspaper to all households in the German-speaking part of Switzerland. From the beginning, it was a political, but non-partisan struggle sheet, that took a position in favor of economically weakly positioned people. The newspaper fought for equal rights for women, fights rampant bureaucracy, and reveals scandals and hypocrisies. Through its populist style and the high number of readers, which in 1994 was over a million, ''Beobachter'' secured an extensive advertising volume within Switzerland. From 2007 respectively 2010 (against media and political protests), the low-priced subscription magazine was published fortnightly by Axel Springer AG Switzerland. At that time, it had a circulation of 308,000 copies, and in 2013 printed 283,284 copie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Schweizer Radio Und Fernsehen
Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen ("Swiss Radio and Television"), shortened to SRF, is a subsidiary of the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SRG SSR), operating in German-speaking Switzerland. SRF was created on 1 January 2011 through the merger of radio company Schweizer Radio DRS (SR DRS) and television company Schweizer Fernsehen (SF), becoming the largest electronic media house of German-speaking Switzerland. About 2,150 employees work for SRF in the three main studios in Basel, Bern, and Zurich. History The public company Swiss Radio and Television was created on January 1, 2011 through the merger of the formerly independent companies Swiss Radio DRS and Schweizer Fernsehen, Swiss Television (SF). Since December 16, 2012, the television and radio stations have been operating as SRF; the names SF and SR DRS have been gradually abolished. In February 2025, the SRF announced that, due to cost-cutting measures, the summer breaks for individual programs would be extended and more r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transdisciplinarity
Transdisciplinarity is an approach that iteratively interweaves knowledge systems, skills, methodologies, values and fields of expertise within inclusive and innovative collaborations that bridge academic disciplines and community perspectives, to develop transformative outcomes that respond to complex societal challenges. While multidisciplinarity involves studying a subject from multiple disciplines that maintain their separate identities, interdisciplinarity integrates these perspectives to create something greater than the sum of its parts. Transdisciplinarity extends beyond academia by involving societal partners in co-creating knowledge that combines scientific and practical expertise to develop solutions with direct impact on society. Transdisciplinary Research Transdisciplinary research connotes research strategies that cross disciplinary and beyond disciplinary (social knowledge) boundaries to create a holistic approach. It applies to research efforts focused on pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tages-Anzeiger
''Tages-Anzeiger'' (), also abbreviated ''Tagi'' or ''TA'', is a Swiss German-language national daily newspaper published in Zurich, Switzerland. History and profile The paper was first published under the name ''Tages-Anzeiger für Stadt und Kanton Zürich'' in 1893. The founder was a German, Wilhelm Girardet. Its current name, ''Tages-Anzeiger'', was adopted later. The paper is based in Zurich and is published in broadsheet. Its owner and publisher is Tamedia and its editor is Res Strehle. Although ''Tages-Anzeiger'' is a national newspaper, it focuses mainly on the Zurich region. Circulation The circulation of ''Tages-Anzeiger'' was 70,000 copies in 1910. It rose to 83,000 copies in 1930 and to 116,000 copies in 1950. In 1967 the paper was the best-selling newspaper with a circulation of 161,000 copies. In the period of 1995–1996 ''Tages-Anzeiger'' had a circulation of 282,222 copies, making it the second best-selling paper in the country. In 1997 its circulation was 283 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
