The purpose of this research study was to examine how chefs and other individuals in the food industry understood the field of culinary arts. This study used an instrumental case study with purposeful sampling of multiple cases. Through a series of open-ended interviews using snowball-sampling strategy that concluded with 45 participants sharing their experiences in culinary education and employment, several themes emerged across all of the interviews: (1) Disempowerment of those who have been successful in the culinary arts; (2) Conflict in the field; and, (3) Needs of employers not being met. Following the analysis of the data, two research questions were inductively formed: (1) How do the participants' understandings vary based upon the three models (apprenticeship, associate degree, and baccalaureate degree) of culinary education? (2) How do these themes vary depending upon the three models of culinary education? What resulted was thick description of the impact of the three models of formal chef education has had on the field of culinary arts, followed by the potential in the development of the baccalaureate degree model as it represented an opportunity for field redefinition in culinary arts. This study produced a set of data revealing that current culinary education has become one that has bred disempowerment, continued conflict in the field of culinary arts, and left needs unfullfilled related to technical skills required for successful employment. The shift from the time-consuming and expensive model of apprenticeship to the development of the associate degree has necessitated a reconsideration of culinary education. What has been offered in this research is the potential for a transformation facilitated within a baccalaureate degree that could intertwine both technical skills and academic knowledge.

Le droit positif français n'est pas en mesure d'offrir une protection aux recettes et créations culinaires. L’Etat, certes, n’est pas insensible à la question. Nonobstant, les mesures existantes ne suffisent pas, tels la mise en valeur du patrimoine culinaire et le droit de l’alimentation. Quant au droit des créations par excellence, le droit de la propriété intellectuelle, il reste étranger à la question. En droit de la propriété littéraire et artistique, les droits d'auteur ne considèrent pas les créations culinaires comme des oeuvres de l'esprit. Seules les créations envisagées sous leurs aspects littéraire ou esthétique peuvent, sous certaines conditions, être prises en compte par ces droits. En droit de la propriété industrielle, le brevet, le dessin et modèle et la marque apparaissent comme des titres protégeant de façon inappropriée les recettes et créations culinaires. Le secret et le savoir-faire constituent, quant à eux, des éléments de protection mais a posteriori seulement. Par conséquent, une évolution des droits d'auteur apparaît nécessaire en réponse aux attentes des métiers de bouche, potentiellement par un revirement de jurisprudence. Qui plus est, il semblerait idéal qu'un système sui generis puisse voir le jour. Dès lors, les créateurs culinaires auraient la possibilité d’utiliser le certificat de création culinaire afin de valoriser leurs recettes et créations culinaires. / There is no protection provided by the French positive law regarding recipes and culinary creations. Nevertheless, the government is working on it. This lack of rights does not allow the development of matters such as culinary heritage and food law. While IP rights are inadequate, copyright law proves few considerations of those creations. In fact, only literary and artistic creations may, in certain circumstances, be taken into account by the copyright law. So, IP rights are not the better way to protect recipes and culinary creations. Secrecy and know-how can be considered as prospective but only retrospectively. Therefore, a change of copyrights law is necessary in response to the expectations of the food business, perhaps by departing from previous case law. The birth of a sui generis legal system will be the best. Therefore

The aim of this study was to examine consumers and producers view on beverages and it’s meaning for Skåne (a region in southern Sweden) and how to create a strong culinary region using beverages. It gets more common to connect food and tourism, where food and beverages can be used to attract visitors. The research methods used were qualitative and quantitative and the data was collected by survey and semi-structured interviews. The respondents weren’t aware of current beverage projects in the region. Most of the respondents expressed that products from Skåne brings added value, the informants shared the same view. The informants also expressed the importance of collaboration and solidarity, the problems of communication and visibility by the customers and finally the importance to experience the beverages as more than just a ‘drink’. There are many advantages by marketing beverages and region together, and it can be positive for both parts. / Syftet med den här studien var att undersöka konsumenters och producenters syn på dryckens roll för Skåne och hur man med hjälp av drycken kan skapa en stark kulinarisk region. Det blir allt vanligare att koppla samman mat och turism, där mat och dryck sätts i fokus för att locka besökare. Intresset för mat och dryck är hetare än någonsin och en tydlig trend i samhället. Studien genomfördes med både kvalitativa och kvantitativa metoder, datainsamlingen bestod av en enkät och semi-strukturerade intervjuer. Respondenterna var ej medvetna om de dryckessatsningar som sker i regionen men de flesta uttryckte att skånska produkter medförde ett mervärde, vilket informanterna förstärkte i de semi-strukturerade intervjuerna. Informanterna uttryckte även vikten av samarbete och gemenskap, problematiken med att nå ut och bli sedd på marknaden samt att se drycken som mer än bara en törstsläckare. Det finns många fördelar i att arbeta med att stärka banden mellan dryck och region, då både produkterna och regionen kan lyfta varandra.

As externships evolved from their vocational education roots into the university setting, both the course purposes and the expectations of student changed toward deeper learning. While the students’ responsibility for gaining knowledge has increased, teaching methods designed by educators to prepare students for more critically evaluated outcomes has not evolved at the same pace. Educators still grapple over how educational design can combine the structured teacher-centered learning strategy used in university classrooms with the learner-centered approach students typically utilize in for-profit culinary workplaces. This dissertation is about culinary externships in the urban environment. The study examined the roles, reasoning, and behavior of culinary externship stakeholders: student externs, externship sites via their externship supervisors, and educators who facilitate externships under the academic rules and guidelines of both culinary bachelor programs and the rigor demanded by higher education. Further, the study explored what factors encouraged and empowered students to acquire durable knowledge from their externship experiences and the forms of social capital they use to invest in their experience, as well as the conditions that failed to secure durable knowledge from the externship. The findings indicate that each stakeholder approaches an externship from their own working perspectives. Further, the ability of students to socialize, utilize agency to achieve their personal ends, bear the sole weight of evaluation, and acquire practical work experience prior to the externship yielded the best outcomes. Additional questions are posed and answered within the study.

É este um estudo sobre a quebra entre o passado e o futuro na cozinha caipira. Mais uma vez vemos agora surgir a lembrança da cozinha caipira, após um longo esquecimento do paulista da roça. Sérgio Buarque de Holanda nos mostrou que a origem da cozinha paulista no tempo dos bandeirantes estava no caminho que convida ao movimento, dando margem à maior influência dos hábitos alimentares indígenas sobre os portugueses. O sustento da viagem ao sertão eram os produtos da caça, pesca e coleta. Ao longo dos caminhos, os paulistas ainda plantavam as roças de milho e feijão. Antonio Candido observou a crise da cozinha caipira, diante do processo de modernização do país. Assim, ocorreu a manutenção da dieta básica e a perda da dieta complementar devido às transformações no mundo do caipira. O feijão com toucinho e a farinha de milho puderam se manter vivos no presente. O que caiu no esquecimento do passado foram os produtos da caça, pesca e coleta. O objetivo deste estudo é reconstruir o passado da cozinha caipira no presente, por meio de uma pesquisa de campo. A hipótese deste estudo é que a moderna cozinha brasileira, na procura incessante do novo, busca inspiração no passado colonial não para ser relançada outra vez à escala nacional e sim à escala mundial. O menu Caminhos & Fronteiras, fruto dos estudos compartilhados com o chef de cozinha Jefferson Rueda, pretende homenagear as origens da cozinha caipira. A criação dos pratos nos levará às viagens ao sertão, pelas antigas capitanias de Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso e Goiás, apresentando os ingredientes das terras paulistas, cuja produção será compreendida por meio das entrevistas com os pequenos produtores rurais. Recolher o tesouro perdido não só do milho, feijão e carne de porco, mas também das carnes de caça, pescados, palmitos, frutas silvestres e mel de abelhas nativas poderá contribuir para construir a ponte entre o passado e o futuro na cozinha caipira. Mas será que a perda da tradição na cozinha caipira significa a perda do passado? A questão da memória e da história benjaminiana irá guiar a busca por uma nova relação com o passado. O estudo chega ao fim com uma leitura psicanalítica que irá compreender a gastronomia como uma sublimação do prazer oral / This is a study about the break between the past and the future in the Caipira cuisine. Once again, we currently see the remembrance of the Caipira cuisine arise, after a long forgetting of the paulista da roça. Sérgio Buarque de Holanda showed us that the origin of the Paulista culinary in the age of the bandeirantes was in the path that invites for movement, allowing for the bigger influence of natives eating habits over the Portuguese ones. The sustenance on the journey inwards was the goods from hunting, fishing and foraging. Along the way, the paulistas also planted corn and bean crops. Antonio Candido observed the crisis of the Caipira cuisine in face of the modernization process the country underwent. Thus, preservation of the basic diet and loss of the complementary diet took place due to transformations in the world of the Caipira. Beans with bacon and corn flour were able to keep themselves alive in the present. What fell into forgetting were the goods from hunting, fishing and foraging. The aim of this study is to reconstruct the past of the Caipira cuisine in the present through a field research. This studys hypothesis is that modern Brazilian cuisine, in the ceaseless quest for the new, seeks inspiration in the colonial past in order not to be relaunched in national scale, but in global scale. The Caminhos&Fronteiras menu, fruit of shared studies with Chef Jefferson Rueda, sets out to pay homage to the origins of the Caipira cuisine. The creation of dishes is to take us to the voyages inwards, throughout the ancient states of Minas Gerais, Mato Grosso and Goiás, presenting the ingredients of Paulistas lands, whose production will be understood by the means of interviews with small producers. Recollecting the lost treasure not only from the corn, beans and pork meat, but also game, fish, hearts of palm, wild fruit and indigenous bees honey may contribute towards bridging the gap between the past and future in the Caipira cuisine. However, does the loss of tradition in Caipira cuisine mean the loss of the past? The question of Benjaminian memory and history will guide the search for a new way to relate to the past. The study reaches its end with a psychoanalytic reading that is to understand gastronomy as a sublimation of oral pleasure

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rita de Cassia Soares da Silva.pdf: 18612585 bytes, checksum: e2c7c0bcf103b1cee17d2bfae69eb4f2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-05-26 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / In 1997, the state of São Paulo was honored with the title of Gastronomy s World Capital a recognition of the Brazilian Association of Gastronomy, Hospitality and Tourism (ABRESI). At the same time, Paris (in the category of hors concurs), Tokyo, New York, Rome, Madrid, Lisbon, Mexico City and Buenos Aires also were granted with these title. From all the cities honored, São Paulo is the one with the largest number of international cuisines represented by bars and restaurants. Currently, São Paulo has 42 French restaurants, of which at least 12 of them have their cuisines led by chefs from the Brazilian Northeastern region. The cuisine developed by these chefs combines the universe of the cuisines with a food system that involves the combination of products, skills, practices, styles, habits and behaviors that define not only what is eaten and who will eat, but also those who turn food into meal. The focus of this study is to understand some characteristics of these chefs trajectories from the Brazilian Northeastern that have been developing their activities in French restaurants installed in São Paulo. To rebuild the cuisine prepared by these chefs and how they have been changing the tradition of French cuisine, as well as ingredients and spices used in the menu definition, we have used oral history methodology. The period defined for this study covers the last thirty years, having as a reference early 1980s / A Associação Brasileira de Gastronomia, Hospedagem e Turismo (ABRESI), em 1997, conferiu à cidade de São Paulo o título de Capital Mundial da Gastronomia. Na mesma ocasião, também foi outorgado o título à Paris, na categoria hors concurs, assim como a Tóquio, Nova Iorque, Roma, Madrid, Lisboa, Cidade do México e Buenos Aires. De todas as cidades homenageadas, São Paulo é a que possui o maior número de cozinhas internacionais representadas por bares e restaurantes. Atualmente, São Paulo possui 42 restaurantes franceses, dos quais pelo menos 12 possuem suas cozinhas dirigidas por chefs nordestinos. A gastronomia desenvolvida por estes chefs associa o universo das cozinhas a um sistema alimentar que envolve a combinação de produtos, habilidades, modos de fazer, estilos, hábitos e comportamentos que definem não só o que é ingerido e quem os vai ingerir, como também quem transforma o alimento em comida. O objetivo deste trabalho é compreender algumas características das trajetórias, dos chefs brasileiros oriundos do nordeste e que desenvolvem suas atividades em restaurantes franceses instalados na cidade de São Paulo. Para reconstruir a gastronomia elaborada por estes chefs e compreender os sinais de como foi sendo modificada a tradição da culinária francesa, assim como importância dos ingredientes e temperos na (re) definição dos cardápios, foi utilizada a metodologia da história oral. O período definido para esta pesquisa abrange os últimos trinta anos, usando como balizador o início da década de 1980

Introdução Apesar da importância das habilidades culinárias para a alimentação saudável, estudos sobre este tema são escassos no Brasil. Objetivo Estudar a influência das habilidades culinárias dos pais (ou responsáveis) no consumo alimentar de crianças em idade escolar. Método Estudo epidemiológico observacional transversal seguido de estudo experimental, prospectivo, randomizado e controlado, envolvendo intervenção educativa para aperfeiçoamento das habilidades culinárias dos pais. A população do estudo observacional correspondeu a pares de pais-crianças em idade escolar de nove escolas da rede de ensino Sesi-SP, sendo cinco delas sorteadas como grupo-intervenção e quatro como grupo-controle. Como parte desta tese, desenvolveu-se e avaliou-se o Índice de Habilidades Culinárias - Brasil (IHC-Brasil), que mensura com uma escala entre zero e cem o grau de confiança das pessoas quanto ao desempenho de dez habilidades culinárias consideradas facilitadoras da implementação das recomendações do Guia Alimentar para a População Brasileira. Nas nove escolas, 755 pais responderam por telefone o questionário do IHC-Brasil e questões sobre o consumo alimentar da criança no jantar do dia anterior à entrevista (recordatório alimentar). Todos os pais do grupo-intervenção que responderam o questionário (n=341) foram convidados a participar de curso de dez horas idealizado pela autora desta tese e ministrado por nutricionistas da rede Sesi- SP visando aperfeiçoamento de habilidades culinárias. Os pais que aceitaram participar (n=81) foram pareados a pais do grupo controle segundo variáveis sociodemograficas. Utilizou-se regressão linear para testar a associação transversal entre habilidades culinárias dos pais e participação de alimentos ultraprocessados no jantar da criança, ajustando-se para variáveis sociodemográficas. O impacto da intervenção educativa nas habilidades culinárias dos pais e na alimentação da criança foi avaliado por mudanças temporais intra e inter-grupos utilizando-se modelos de regressão linear brutos e ajustados. Resultados O IHC-Brasil apresentou alpha de Cronbach > 0,70, kappa ponderado de 0,55 e kappa ajustado de 0,89. No estudo transversal, a idade média dos pais foi de 38,3 anos e a dos filhos de 7,8 anos. Os pais eram majoritariamente mulheres, brancos, casados, com ensino superior, empregados e com renda familiar per capita de 1-3 salários mínimos/mês. A média do IHC-Brasil desses pais (78,8) foi relativamente elevada. A média de energia consumida pelas crianças no jantar foi de 672,2kcal, sendo 31,3 por cento de alimentos ultraprocessados. No estudo transversal, evidenciou-se diminuição significativa do percentual de participação de alimentos ultraprocessados no jantar das crianças com o aumento do IHC-Brasil (= -2,9; p= 0,014; ajustado= -2,6; p=0,035). No estudo prospectivo não houve diferença significativa entre os grupos intervenção e controle com relação à mudança nas habilidades culinárias dos pais e à mudança na contribuição de alimentos ultraprocessados no jantar das crianças. Conclusões O IHC-Brasil apresentou elevada consistência interna e alta reprodutibilidade, recomendando-se seu uso em estudos que avaliem habilidades culinárias no Brasil. Os achados do estudo transversal mostram associação significativa e inversa entre habilidade culinária dos pais e consumo de alimentos ultraprocessados pelos filhos, mas a intervenção educativa não resultou em aumento nas habilidades culinárias dos pais nem no padrão alimentar do jantar das crianças / Introduction: Despite the importance of cooking skills for healthy eating, studies on this subject are scarce in Brazil. Objective -To study the influence of parents\' cooking skills on the quality of diet consumed at home among school-age children. Methods -Cross-sectional study, followed by an experimental, randomized and controlled study involving an educational intervention to improve parents\' cooking skills. The study population corresponds to child-parent pairs from nine private schools that provide integrated comprehensive services for students in São Paulo. Five schools were randomly allocated to the intervention group, and four to the control group. As part of this thesis, the Cooking Skills Index (CSI) was developed and evaluated. The CSI is a 0-100 index that measures the confidence regarding the performance of ten cooking skills considered facilitators to the implementation of the Brazilian Dietary Guidelines. Across the nine schools, 755 parents answered by telephone the CSI questionnaire and questions regarding their children food consumption at dinner the day before the interview (dietary recall). All the parents in the intervention group who answered the questionnaire (n=341) were invited to participate in a 10-hour course designed by the author of this thesis and taught by nutritionists from the partner schools in order to improve cooking skills. Parents who agreed to participate (n=81) were paired with parents of the control group according to sociodemographic variables.Linear regression analysis was used to test the association between the parents\' cooking skills and the contribution of ultra-processed foods to the total children\'s dinner energy intake, adjusted for sociodemographic variables. The impact of the educational intervention on parents\' cooking skills and on children\'s diet quality was assessed by temporal changes within and between groups using crude and adjusted linear regression models.Results -The CSIpresented Cronbach\'s alpha > 0.70, weighted quadratic kappa of 0.55, and adjusted kappa of 0.89. In the cross-sectional study the average age of the parents was 38.3 years old and of the children was 7.8. Parents were mostly women, white, married, college-educated, employed, with family per capita income of 1-3 minimum wages per month, and with high scores of cooking skills (CSI=78.8 points). Children\'s average dinner energy intake was 672.2 kcal, with 31.3% coming from ultra-processed foods. The cross-sectional study showed a significant decrease in ultra-processed food consumption at children\'s dinner with an increase of parents\' cooking skillsconfidence (?= -2.9; p= 0.014; adjusted ?=-2.6;p=0.035). Intheprospectivestudy, therewerenosignificantdifferencesbetweentheinterventionandthecontrolgroupregardingthetemporalchangesofparents\'cookingskills,aswellastheshareofultra-processedfoodsat children\'s dinner. Conclusions -The CSI showed high internal consistency and reproducibility, recommending its use in studies to evaluate cooking skills confidence in Brazil. The cross-sectional study indicated that the higher the parents\' cooking skills the lower the consumption of ultra-processed foods by their children, but the educational intervention neither resulted in the increase in parents\' cooking skills nor in changes in the dietary pattern of children\'s dinner.

The main aim of this thesis is to present a lucid summary and a critical evaluation of the (often ambiguous) ancient testimonies concerning the Greek culinary art from the classical up to the imperial era. The sources are divided in two groups. The first one is made up from prosaic works, i. e. cookbooks themselves, specialised treatises and some medical tractates concerned with dietetics and proprieties of foodstuffs. The second group consists of poems on gastronomic themes. A serious problem is constituted by considerable fragmentariness of the extant sources, which in some cases prevents us from making any definite judgments on the sources' content. Attention is paid also to food as such and the diet composition at the time, the whole theme being set in wider social framework. The thesis also incorporates a translation of and commentary on several selected extant receipts.

Os dicionários sempre foram e ainda são uma das principais ferramentas da tarefa tradutória. No entanto, a terminografia parece não ter se beneficiado ainda de forma sistemática, pelo menos no Brasil, da estreita relação entre dicionários técnicos e esse público-alvo específico e cada vez mais expressivo: os tradutores técnicos. Na área da Culinária, por exemplo, cuja demanda por traduções tem crescido regularmente no país, os dicionários disponíveis no par de línguas inglês-português, ainda que possam contribuir para a compreensão do texto original, não dão qualquer informação sobre como os termos são, de fato, usados em textos reais na área, ou seja, não auxiliam o tradutor numa etapa fundamental da atividade tradutória: a produção textual na língua de chegada. Nossa tese é a de que um dicionário que procure atender as necessidades de produção textual do tradutor deve concentrar-se nos aspectos que caracterizam o texto técnico do ponto de vista da tradução, isto é, deve descrever e propor equivalentes ou soluções tradutórias para as Unidades de Tradução Especializadas (UTEs) presentes nesses textos, com as quais o tradutor da área se depara freqüentemente em sua prática, sejam elas terminológicas ou não. A Lingüística de Corpus (L.C.), abordagem empirista que vê a língua como um sistema probabilístico, tem se dedicado à identificação de padrões léxico-gramaticais recorrentes na linguagem por meio da observação de textos autênticos organizados sob a forma de corpora eletrônicos. É, portanto, a área de estudos que julgamos fornecer os subsídios teóricos e metodológicos mais adequados para compilar as UTEs a partir de textos reais. Para abrigar essas unidades, apresentamos uma proposta de dicionário online bidirecional inglês-português voltado para o tradutor da área técnica da Culinária. As etapas seguidas no desenvolvimento deste trabalho estão organizadas em seis capítulos. O primeiro trata de aspectos teórico-práticos da tradução técnica e discute o papel da terminologia na prática tradutória. O segundo examina as especificidades do trabalho do tradutor da área da Culinária no Brasil e caracteriza a receita culinária , foco de nosso estudo, como gênero e tipologia textual. No terceiro capítulo, as bases teóricas e metodológicas da L.C. são apresentadas, bem como os critérios de coleta do corpus que servirá de base para a identificação das UTEs. O Capítulo IV descreve a etapa de exploração desse corpus: primeiramente, apresentamos o estudo em que é feito um levantamento manual de padrões léxicogramaticais usando o programa WordSmith Tools; em seguida, descrevemos uma metodologia de extração semi-automática de UTEs no corpus. O Capítulo V apresenta nossa proposta do Dicionário Online de Culinária bidirecional para Tradutores, descrevendo sua macro- e microestrutura. O Capítulo VI apresenta nossas considerações finais. Os resultados obtidos em nosso trabalho demonstram que a L.C., se usada não apenas como metodologia, mas como abordagem teórica na exploração de corpora especializados, permite elaborar dicionários mais úteis e confiáveis para o tradutor, pois leva em consideração quaisquer padrões associativos entre palavras cuja probabilidade de ocorrer em textos representativos da área seja alta fato que justifica plenamente a inclusão desses padrões num dicionário voltado para o tradutor-produtorde- textos. / Dictionaries have always been and still are one of the main tools for the translator s task. Nevertheless, terminography does not seem to have systematically benefited, at least in Brazil, from the close relation between technical dictionaries and this increasingly significant and particular target audience: technical translators. In the field of Culinary, for instance, which has witnessed a growing demand for translations in Brazil, much as the dictionaries available for the English-Portuguese language pair may contribute to the understanding of the source text, they still do not provide any information on how the terms are actually used in real texts. In other words, they do not help the translator in a crucial step of the translation activity: text production in the target language. The thesis advanced here is that a dictionary which seeks to meet the needs of a translator s text production should focus on the aspects which characterize technical texts from the point of view of translation itself, that is, it should describe and propose translation equivalents or suggestions for the Specialized Translation Units (STUs) occurring in these texts, which the translator in the area often comes across in her/his practice, whether they are terminological or not. Corpus Linguistics (CL), an empirical approach which regards language as a probabilistic system, has devoted itself to the identification of recurring lexico-grammatical patterns in language by observing authentic texts organized as electronic corpora. It is, therefore, the field of studies we deem capable of providing the most adequate theoretical and methodological support to extract the STUs from real texts. In order to embrace these units, a proposal of an online bidirectional English-Portuguese dictionary is presented, which is aimed at the technical Culinary translator. The steps followed in the development of this study were organized in six chapters. The first deals with the theoretical and practical aspects of technical translation and discusses the role of terminology in translation practice. The second examines the specificities of the Culinary translator s job in Brazil and characterizes the culinary recipe , the focus of this study, in terms of text genre and typology. In the third chapter, the theoretical and methodological foundations of CL are presented, as well as the criteria used in the compilation of the corpus to be used for the identification of the STUs. Chapter IV describes the exploration of this corpus: first, we present the study in which a manual search of lexico-grammatical patterns using the WordSmith Tools program is carried out; next, a methodology for semi-automatic extraction of STUs in the corpus is described. Chapter V presents our proposal for a bidirectional online Culinary Dictionary for Translators, describing its macro- and microstructure. Chapter VI contains the final considerations. The results obtained in this study bear witness to the fact that CL, if used not only as a methodology, but as a theoretical approach in the investigation of specialized corpora, enables the production of more useful and trustworthy dictionaries for the translator, for it takes into account any association patterns between words with a probability of occurrence in representative texts in the field a fact which strongly supports the inclusion of these patterns in a dictionary aimed at the translator-producer-of-texts

There is a lack of persistence and completion of students enrolled in a local college culinary arts program, a problem also evident in national data. Some students entering the college program have participated in a defined high school curriculum focused on culinary arts, such as the National Restaurant Association Education Association's ProStart curriculum. The purpose of this study was to determine if participation in the ProStart program was related to the mean grade point average (GPA) and time to completion in the college culinary arts program. Dewey's theory of experience provided the theoretical framework. Participants from 2 cohorts at the local college students who participated in ProStart (n = 17) and those who did not (n = 122) were examined for GPA and number of months to program completion. A t test revealed the students who participated in ProStart had higher average GPAs. There was no statistically significant difference in the time to completion between the 2 groups. The analysis must be viewed within the limitations of the available sample size of the ProStart group, and further study is recommended with larger group sizes. Based on the results of this study, a peer-to-peer mentoring program pairing ProStart with non ProStart students was developed and recommended to the research site. The implications for social change include providing research results to the local site and a recommendation for a mentoring program to improve the rate of completion in the culinary arts program.