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Eat Biodiversity

Being as it is the Year of Biodiversity and I am making my own plot more biodiverse than it was, I thought this would be interesting for you biodiversityfoodiephiles.

Bem-me-quer is a vegetarian restaurant located in the centre of Lisbon (Portugal).

This vegetarian restaurant has launched a cuisine to show how a simple dish can contain millions of years of species evolution.

The project, titled “Biodiversidade à Mesa – como proteger Natureza com faca e garfo” (Biodiversity at the table – how to protect Nature with the fork and knife),aims to promote to diners the value and impact of people’s every-day food choices, and the important role that traditional agriculture has played over millennia to bring us crop varieties.

 
More information is here:

http://www.countdown2010.net/article/biodiversity-at-the-table

and the restaurant's website is here: http://www.bem-me-quer.pt/

If you are in Portugal you can visit it here:

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  1. i`d like to dinner in that restaurant..i guess the food is wonderful

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