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llspice Institute has always paid respect to the cultural The book shares various strong ideas, topics and great
and heritage of the local community by teaching arguments pushing forth a strong case towards preserving
A students recipes that have been passed down from the future of cultural and street food, while inculcating a
tradition. At the same time, the hospitality school has in recent passion for the future. This means that they touch on some
years embraced the wonders of technology and innovation, ideas that are currently trending amongst the general public
which can be seen implemented in its teaching techniques when it comes to food, including the use of alternative meats
as well as how it presents its recipes to people at home. Now, and proteins as a replacement ingredient for certain dishes,
it combines the elements of history and technology thanks the use of the Metaverse to showcase different street food
to their partnership with WOSH (World of Streetfood and all over the world, and the use of NFTs to preserve hawker
Hawkerpreneurship), a company that is looking to find ways to recipes. There is even talk about transcending food from
push forth preserving street food and the concepts of hawker cultural standards to a more futuristic agenda. All in all WOSH.
entrepreneurship across the world. It’s latest project? A launch WORLD is looking to dispense new ideas to the general public.
to promote its newest book: WOSH.WORLD: Future Ready.
Allspice Institute is currently working in collaboration with
But what exactly is WOSH.WORLD, and how does its newest WOSH.WORLD to host the upcoming charity book launch
book plan to discuss the future of hawkers and street food? at Allspice Institute in the 2nd of July, with proceeds of the
Well, to put it simply, WOSH.WORLD is a group that is looking tickets going to Circle of Friends, an organisation that cooks
towards social purpose, with a strong focus on a topic close to and distributes meals to those that need it in Bukit Merah.
our hearts: food. More importantly, the founding members of the With food served by hawkers that Allspice Institute has
company are looking to, “preserve and ensure the continued chosen to work with, the event is sure to showcase just what
survival of traditional StreetFood and Hawker culture.” And WOSH.WORLD and Allspice Institute is working towards.
much of the research, ideas and stories were collected into
their first book looking to explore ideas on how we can make
street food vendors ready for the future. It’s in line with the
push towards Singapore as a Smart Nation, using technology
and digitalisation to push forth every aspect of everyday life.
Now, with the success of the first book, the team is looking
to expand a little more on their ideas, with more essays and Block 162 Bukit Merah Central, #07-3545
articles from international sources in their second book. Singapore 150162 |Tel: (65) 63779301/ 6377 9302/6377 9303

pg014 1. WOSH.WORLD bibliography pg015 2. Mr Clarence Lim presenting the award recipient of the young entrepreneur of the year
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