Traditional Food Register

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The register of traditional foods or shortly Traditional food is a directory of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Agriculture, regions and tourism (Ministry of Life), where traditional food in Austria as a cultural asset listed. This register is part of the traditional knowledge .

Basics

This list includes foods that have been cultivated or processed in Austria for at least three generations or 75 years.

The Ministry of Life and the Austrian Culinary Heritage Board of Trustees and Agrarmarkt Austria not only record the products by name, but also document the production and origin of these foods. The region itself, from which these originate, is also recorded and thus a culinary atlas is created. But the linguistic aspect is also described, that is, the origin of the terms, which is not always easy to find out.

This culinary atlas then results in regions, which in turn are included in the derived project Genussregion Österreich and the subordinate enjoyment regions. In addition to the preservation of traditional knowledge, there is also a basis that can be marketed in tourism.

The register contains the following information for each specialty:

  • a description of the product,
  • a brief presentation of traditional knowledge,
  • Information about the first historical disclosure,
  • a description of the special production method
  • the connection to the region and the traditional knowledge of the keyword
  • a list of references and literature used.

Cultural and economic concern

The background to this list is "to preserve the roots of Austrian food and drink culture, recipes and typical Austrian agricultural raw products from disappearing and extinction." The aim is to use research into the history of the origins of Austrian cuisine and the inventory of agricultural manufacturers and producers in the catering industry to identify those products that represent independent and characteristic developments in Austria. At the same time, there is the UNESCO initiative to protect the intangible cultural heritage in Austria , in which some culinary traditions are also anchored.

In addition to preservation, the register should also serve to communicate these values ​​and promote interest in food and production methods, appreciation (“and thus willingness to pay for quality”), and consumer and nutritional behavior (“origin and quality correlate directly with healthy nutrition ”). The initiative is thus integrated into central structural funding programs such as the soil protection and agri-environmental program ÖPUL (Austrian program for environmentally friendly agriculture) , the organic action programs of the BMLFUW since the 2000s, as well as LEADER , the regional program of the EU.

Legal framework

The list has been fully  notified to the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), making Austria the first country to have its culinary cultural heritage registered internationally. The central concern is to declare cultural achievements of Austrian agriculture and cuisine as intellectual property of the general public and to protect them on the basis of international agreements. Both breeding and preparation services are anchored as an asset worth protecting. This is to prevent that, for example, someone's genetic sequence of a registered breed or variety or parts thereof or products derived from patented leaves, or common production methods and ingredients. Therefore, proof of what has been handed down for a longer period is required, which is roughly within the 70-year period of copyright law .

In contrast to protected information, such as PGI or guaranteed traditional specialty  (g. T. S., VO (EEC) 1848/1993), the entry does not provide any trademark protection of the name. However, some product groups protected by designations of origin are also kept in the register.

structure

The foods entered in the list, which in 2013 consisted of 226 items, can be broken down as follows:

  • Cheese (23 types of cheese)
  • flesh
  • Fish (8 species of fish from certain regions)
  • Fruit (15 types of fruit from different regions)
  • Field crops (21 different field crops from Austrian regions)
  • Special crops (14 different field plants and their regions)
  • Oil (2 types of oil)
  • Honey (1 kind)
  • Beverages (31 non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages according to their raw product and region)
  • Food (33 different dishes according to origin)

External impact

The register and its contents are rarely advertised. However, the register is the basis for the membership of regions of origin in the enjoyment regions of Austria , one of the central strategies in the development of rural areas, both with regard to tourism and the formation of identity in the region itself. Thus, a large part of the foods contained in the register are advertised across the more than 100 regions.

See also

literature

  • Roswitha Baumung, Franz Fischerleitner, Günter Jaritz, Thomas C. Jutz, Christine Klenovec, Eva-Maria Munduch-Bader, Barbara Steurer, Klaus Wanninger: Rare farm animal breeds. Diversity manual . LTS 231. Ed .: Austrian Board of Trustees for Agricultural Engineering and Rural Development. 3. Edition. Vienna 2016 ( PDF of the first edition, 2009 - with a number of entries on traditional foods).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Mission statement. kulinarisches-erbe.at, accessed January 5, 2016; Quotations literally there.