Cultural Flows in High-End Cuisine

Cultural Flows in High-End Cuisine
Author: Christel Lane
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2024-07-18
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1040093019

Focusing on high-end cuisine, this book examines the flows of culinary knowledge from culturally peripheral locations to two cities at the global center, London and New York. Through the voices of chefs and other professionals in the industry, this book invites readers to rethink our understandings of high-end and ethnic cuisines, as well as the conventions and principles that shape the contemporary field of gastronomy and fine-dining. It examines a broad range of cuisines, including Peruvian, Korean, Mexican, Malaysian, Senegalese, West African, Thai, Chinese, and Indian, and conveys the chefs’ voices as they strive to elevate their cuisines through discursive and material means, including the shaping of menus, and restaurant decor. While the main focus falls on chefs as the producers of high-end cuisines, this book also gives consideration to their consumers, that is cosmopolitan diners in the two global cities, and to the influence of culinary intermediaries judging and legitimizing their high-end status. Theoretically, this book contributes to the debate on cultural globalization. It undertakes a study of hitherto rarely examined cultural counterflows or reverse cultural globalization and analyzes both the precipitants of this occurrence and the effects of cultural counterflows on both Western global cities and the home countries of chefs. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of food studies, food cultures, cultural globalization, and culinary studies.

Rage Baking

Rage Baking
Author: Katherine Alford
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-02-04
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 198213268X

The “political cookbook that has the food world buzzing” (Forbes, Editors’ Pick) features 50+ recipes, short essays, interviews, and quotes from some of the best bakers, activists, and outspoken women in our country today. The 2016 election. The January 6th insurrection. Impeachment, twice. The overturning of Roe v. Wade. For many women, baking now has a new meaning. It’s an outlet for expressing our feelings about the current state of American politics and culture. It’s a way to deal with our stress and anxiety, and, yes, rage and fury. Rage Baking offers more than 50 cookie, cake, tart, and pie recipes—with beautiful photography by Jerelle Guy—to help vent these emotions. And it goes further. Inside you’ll find inspirational essays, reflections, and interviews with well-known bakers and impassioned feminists and activists to help motivate you to act and organize in your communities. Be inspired with recipes, such as: -Oatmeal Cookies from Ruth Reichl -Lemon Bars from Vallery Lomas -Swedish Visiting Cake from Dorie Greenspan -Rum Raisin Brownies from Julia Turshen -Root Beer Cake with Chocolate–Root Beer Glaze from Carla Hall -Classic Southern Pecan Pie from Cecile Richards -Almond and Chocolate Leche Cake from Pati Jinich -Chocolate Cherry Biscotti from Grace Young -And essays, interviews, and poetry by Ani DiFranco, Jennifer Finey Boylan, Elle Simone, Hali Bey Ramdene, and Von Diaz, among others. “Timely” (The New York Times), fun, and creative, this cookbook speaks to a wide range of bakers who are looking for new ways to use their sweetest skills to combine food and activism. Rage Baking brings women together with humor and passion to defend, resist, and protest. PROCEEDS OF THIS BOOK GO TO EMILY’S LIST TO SUPPORT WOMEN CANDIDATES.

Zero Proof

Zero Proof
Author: Elva Ramirez
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
Total Pages: 259
Release: 2021
Genre: Cooking
ISBN: 0358211913

90 no-alcohol cocktail recipes from top bartenders across the country