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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"food culture"”.
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Culture on a Plate: The Social Construction of Authenticity in Food Culture
… to show how authenticity is fabricated in food culture. Conceptualizing food as a cultural product makes possible the analysis of social processes through food. In doing so, food becomes a mirror reflecting the happenings within the broader social world. This study examines three empirical …
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Sense of Place, Sense of self: Sharing place through the lens of food, culture and the sensory embodiment of space
… this paper, I will explore how I can share culture, place, and a sense of place through the lens of food with a key focus on the sensory embodiment of space. I will look closely at how place is defined and how we form attachments to place. The theoretical analysis will include how we define …
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Saberes e fazeres da cultura alimentar tradicional da comunidade remanescente quilombola Lagoa Torta dos Pretos
Quilombolas traditional food culture include culinary knowledges and agriculture skills that tell histories of this communities that fought for their right to freedom and built their autonomy using natural resources available in their territories in different historical, economic, sociocultural and …
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Regenerative Aquaculture: Designing for Resilience of the Chesapeake Tidewater
… communities are confronted with a loss of culture, livelihood, and the environment in which they live. This thesis seeks to reframe the problem of regeneration of community and environment, through the use of resilient design. Resilient design is the process of designing for an uncertain at …
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From Pupusas to Chimichangas: Exploring the Ways in which Food Contributes to the Creation of a Pan-Latino Identity
<p>Framed through the standardizations of food and generalizations of people, this research explores the shifting ingredients of migrant identities and the ethnic foodways carried with them as they cross the border into the United States. Using ethnographic observational fieldwork, content analysis …
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Signifying the autobiographical memory on social media a semiotic analysis of food-themed imagery on Instagram
… has become a pervasive influence on social culture, a trend largely due to the widespread emergence inter-alia, of the Internet, personal computers, smartphones and other devices as affordable and effective means of mass digital communication. As people spend more time online, their …
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Social Marketing and Food Policy in Greece: Findings from Research with Undergraduate Students and Key Stakeholders
… countries, has experienced great changes in food supply, consumption patterns and health outcomes. Famous for its Mediterranean diet, it has actually undergone a modem nutrition transition, and now has high rates of overweight and obesity and increased incidence of non-communicable …
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BETWEEN HARSHA AND HARIRA: MOROCCAN WOMEN’S RELATIONSHIPS TO FOOD AND KITCHENSPACE
… concerning the gendered and spatial aspects of food culture and “kitchenspace” in Fez, Morocco. The everyday geographies of urban women in Fez, Morocco are closely connected to local food systems and food spaces. Food spaces like the kitchen are where women’s complex relationships to food and …
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BETWEEN HARSHA AND HARIRA: MOROCCAN WOMEN’S RELATIONSHIPS TO FOOD AND KITCHENSPACE
… concerning the gendered and spatial aspects of food culture and “kitchenspace” in Fez, Morocco. The everyday geographies of urban women in Fez, Morocco are closely connected to local food systems and food spaces. Food spaces like the kitchen are where women’s complex relationships to food and …
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Internet killed the Michelin star : the motives of narrative and style in food text creation on social media
Digital representations of food (food texts) have become mainstream content on social media sites and digital streaming sites. While they accomplish some similar goals to their analog counterparts (e.g. in-print cookbooks), like communicating information about the food's preparation or what its …
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Designing is Cooking: A Museum of Gastronomy
… experience pursuing a relationship between food, culture, and design. The National Mall is a symbolic setting dedicated to U.S. heritage via museums, memorials, and the honoring of legacies accessible to the public. As the U.S. is a melting pot of different nationalities, this museum would …
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Dining habits and preferences of young patrons of fast food restaurants in Singapore and Las Vegas, 1994
… and expectations of 1,012 young patrons of fast food restaurants in Singapore and Las Vegas. The Singapore respondents were students from a Pre-university and SHATEC, a hospitality industry vocational institute. In Las Vegas, the respondents were from the William F. Harrah College of Hotel …
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Making Hui: The minoritisation, performance and place of Islam in contemporary Beijing
… lived experience, with specific reference to Hui food cultures. These distinctive food cultures provide an analytically useful and empirically accessible route into wider reflections on how Hui perform their identities by constructing, claiming, and negotiating practices, spaces, identities, and …
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The defining characteristics of alternative food initiatives in Ireland: a social movement battling for an alternative food future?
Alternative food initiatives (AFIs) have been described as an attempt to change and improve aspects of how the food system operates. They are focused around more traditional, local and sustainable food production and circulation. AFIs such as farmers’ markets, allotments and community gardens, …
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A Multicultural Nutrition and Culinary Intervention for Middle School Students: Pink and Dude Chefs, Phase 2
… knowledge and practical skill to prepare healthy food from scratch is an important factor. Research indicates that nutrition and culinary interventions based on behavioral change theories may improve mediators of healthful eating in adolescents.</p> <p>Pink and Dude Chefs, Phase 2, an eight-week …
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heirlooms in search of the fifth ecology
… use. So, while crop yields have increased, agriculture biodiversity has decreased. And since the 1900s the United States has lost over 90% of its fruit and vegetable varieties, spurring seed saving efforts around the world. The most well-known of these collective efforts is the Svalbard Global …
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Meanings and Markets: Reading Food Commodities in Postwar America
… investigates the literary construction of food commodities in the United States after World War II. Because of the war effort's ramping up of industry and technology, the exchange of new and rationalized food commodities traded in the marketplace becomes the dominant mode of food …
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Infusion cuisine: a study of the value of foods in a pottery context across the transition to agriculture in the southern Baltic
… promising source of evidence about the types of food that were important in the Late Mesolithic and Early Neolithic, as domesticates began to be incorporated into culinary use. It is argued that although residues are not a reflection of the economy, there were diverse values to food that …
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Everyday food practices among three low-income groups: Rural, homeless, and refugee
… (CDC, 2010). They are also more likely to need food and nutritional assistance (USDA, 2011). Yet very little is known about the day-to-day food practices of these individuals and families. Many times those who are relatively adjacent in terms of income are assumed to have similarities in food …
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