The culinary industry is well known for its unforgiving workplace conditions and precarious employment relationships. Low pay, unpredictable schedules, and workplace harassment are commonplace. However, workers in the industry are often dedicated to their craft and passionate about the industry in which they work. This thesis aims to come to a better understanding of the working lives of young kitchen workers in Toronto. Using a narrative approach to research, this thesis draws on the experiences of nine young kitchen workers. Their narratives are analyzed through examining their participation in communities of practice and their experiences of employment strain. It seeks to answer the question of why these individuals enjoy their work but often hate their jobs. / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA) / The culinary industry is well known for its unforgiving workplace conditions and precarious employment relationships. Low pay, unpredictable schedules, and workplace harassment are commonplace. However, workers in the industry are often dedicated to their craft and passionate about the industry in which they work. This thesis aims to come to a better understanding of the working lives of young kitchen workers in Toronto. Using a narrative approach to research, this thesis draws on the experiences of nine young kitchen workers. Their narratives are analyzed through examining their participation in communities of practice and their experiences of employment strain. It seeks to answer the question of why these individuals enjoy their work but often hate their jobs.

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Numerous food-borne illnesses are associated with fish and shellfish annually due to consumers choosing to eat seafood raw or undercooked and consumers not properly handling and preparing seafood. The 2009 FDA Food Code suggests intact fish and shellfish should be cooked to an internal temperature of 63°C to target Salmonella spp. Selected fish and shellfish were cooked to 64°C ± 1 and 74°C ± 1 and evaluated for consumer acceptability, characteristics of doneness at temperature endpoints, and physical changes of texture (TPA, KSC, and WB), color, and cook loss. Temperature endpoints represented the recommended internal temperature and ten degrees higher to increase lethality of Salmonella spp. Differences (p < 0.05) in texture were determined among the methods and products tested. However, consumer acceptability (n = 50) for fish and shellfish products (salmon: baked, poached; tilapia: baked, pan-fried; and shrimp: boiled) cooked to 64°C ± 1 and 74°C ± 1 were liked equally (p > 0.05), with mean hedonic scores falling between 6 (like slightly) and 7 (like moderately). A trained descriptive panel (n = 7) reviewed visual and non-oral texture indicators of doneness to distinguish 64°C ± 1 and 74°C ± 1. Firmness and shape of shrimp, separation between muscle flakes and fillet edge color of baked tilapia, and firmness and edge color of the fillet for baked salmon were identified as indicators to determine doneness. Overall, 74°C could be recommended as the internal temperature for cooking fish/shellfish such as salmon, tilapia, and shrimp without diminishing eating quality or acceptability. / Master of Science in Life Sciences

Consumers regularly decide to consume fish and shellfish raw or undercooked, which can cause foodborne illness due to product contamination or unsafe handling by the consumer.  In order to be considered safe for consumption, intact fish and shellfish should be prepared to an internal temperature of 63"C, according to the 2009 FDA Food Code, with Salmonella spp. as the target organism.  Focus groups (5 groups, 32 participants) were conducted to determine consumer beliefs and concerns regarding fish and shellfish safety and preparation.  Transcripts of focus groups where coded for themes, which were then grouped into categories.  Nine categories emerged including:  experience, trust, confidence, quality of product, motivation, concerns, cooking procedures, cooking instructions, and knowledge.  Emerging themes were used to help develop educational materials to increase consumer ability to properly prepare fish and shellfish.  In a separate experiment, participants (n=6) cooked salmon (baked, broiled), tilapia (baked, broiled), and shrimp (broiled, boiled) according to cookbook-based directions.    Internal temperatures of products were recorded, with 33.3% of products cooked to a temperature less than 63"C.  A group training session was held, during which participants received additional visual and non-oral cues to determine when products were prepared to 63"C and safe food handling practices.  After training, participants prepared the same products.  Participants demonstrated improved food safety behaviors and were more successful at cooking products to temperatures "63"C (94.4% of products).  Improved cooking instruction and educational materials may reduce the risk of foodborne illness from undercooked fish and shellfish. / Master of Science in Life Sciences

The purpose of this doctorate thesis is to investigate the historical discursive construction of swedishness and foreignness in the Swedish culinary field, primarily during the period of 1900-1970, and to relate the changes in the articulation of these concepts to the overarching ideological shifts during this time-period. To achieve this objective a conceptual apparatus inspired by cultural studies, discourse analysis and rhetorical analysis is employed upon the primary material, which consists of Swedish- and foreign-signified cookbooks published in Sweden during the period of 1600-1970. It is further argued that communities of consumption, such as nationalized culinary cultures, are discursive constructions and that actors attempt to write individuals into these communities through the articulation of nationalized subject positions. In the thesis it is thus investigated how, when and perhaps why certain actors on a field attempt to discursively construct such communities of consumption during a certain era. The chapters 2-5 of the thesis contain analyses of the historical construction of foreignness on the Swedish cultural field. Here various trends are traced in the construction of individual foreign cuisines, both in relation to each other and to the concept of culinary swedishness. An analysis is also made of the varied rhetoric that is used to promote foreign-signified cooking to the Swedish public during the examined time-period. It is concluded that the variations in rhetoric seem to covariate with larger ideological shifts in Swedish society. Chapters 6 and 7 specifically examine the construction of swedishness in the culinary field by focusing on the construction of national culinary icons such as the Smörgåsbord and Husmanskost and also on the evolution of the ideas of a distinct Swedish palate and a Swedish national cuisine. As a result of this investigation the perhaps surprisingly late codification of a Swedish national cuisine during the 1960’s is noted. It is further argued that this development coincides with a shift in the popular mood, where “the Swedish way of life” increasingly comes to be seen as threatened by external forces such as foreign influences and modernity, why certain actors on the culinary field express a necessity for the codification of what is perceived of as the “true Swedish cuisine”. A paradoxical result of this urge for preservation is the construction of new cultural phenomena dressed in a traditionalist and nationalist rhetoric that anchors them in a distant past.

無庸置疑，人類的每一項知覺都一樣重要。因為我們仰賴這些知覺接收來自周遭的訊息，只要有一個消失不見，我們在生活上便會遇到困難。然而，在語言表達上，知覺並非一樣重要。嗅覺看似是最難表達的知覺，因為人們常常依賴物體來表達嗅覺，例如「草的味道」。另一方面，我們無需依賴物體、並使用顏色來表達視覺。當我們想陳述對於「天空」的想法時，我們會使用「藍色」而不是「天空的顏色」。不同的語言有無可能把重點放在不同的知覺上？如果是，是什麼原因造成不同的語言現象？ 觀察人們如何表達對食物的看法非常適合用來討論知覺表達，因為品嚐食物的過程和視覺、嗅覺、味覺、及口感息息相關。本研究搜集來自中文及日文母語者有關食物的知覺表達，包括職業廚師及料理新手。米飯在中國及日本文化扮演著主食的角色，這項文化地位讓米飯成為與發音人面談上的主題。假設所有的知覺在不同文化都一樣重樣，人們應該會以相似的方式來表達知覺。研究結果發現在知覺表達中，中文母語者主要強調口感，但日語母語者強調視覺。透過比較職業廚師及料理新手也能找到知覺表達上的差異：職業廚師主要著重視覺，新手則重視味覺。人們亦使用不同的認知策略來表達不同知覺，但職業廚師及新手都依賴對食物的評價來表達知覺。從生理學上來看，人類的知覺一樣重要，但中文及日文的知覺表達卻不一樣。本研究認為文化及社會因素了影響語言的知覺表達。 / Senses are undoubtedly important to people because they allow us to experience our world and we would face difficulties when any of them were absent. However, senses are not equally important in linguistic expressions. It seems that expressing odors is difficult in some languages because people often rely on concrete objects to make olfactory expressions, such as cǎo de weìdào ‘the smell of grass.’ Making use of color rather than concrete objects for visual expressions, we often choose lán ‘blue’ rather than tiānkōng de yánsè ‘the color of sky’ when expressing what we feel from sky. Is it possible that different emphasis of senses can be observed in different languages? If so, what is the reason leading to the differences in languages? Observing how people express their feeling toward food is an appropriate method to discuss sensory expressions, because the procedure of tasting food is strongly correlated with multiple senses like vision, odor, taste, and mouthfeel. This study collects sensory expressions of food from both Chinese and Japanese speakers, including both experts and novices of cooking. Acting as the main dish in Chinese and Japanese cultures, rice is regarded as the theme of interview due to the cultural importance. If all senses are important in different cultures, they should be expressed in similar ways. Our results suggest that Chinese mainly focuses on mouthfeel, while Japanese mainly focuses on vision when performing sensory expressions. The differences in sensory expressions can also be observed through comparing experts with novices: experts mainly focus on vision, and novices firstly choose taste. People also make use of different cognitive strategies to express different kinds of senses, but both experts and novices rely on the evaluative type to create sensory expressions. Sensory expressions are different between Chinese and Japanese although senses are physiologically identical for people. This study suggests that both culture and social factors influence sensory expressions in languages.

The general aim of this thesis is to use foodwork and cooking in Sweden as a way to better understand theoretical questions about men and masculinities. Paper I discusses how an increased public interest in elaborate cooking and gastronomy in Sweden, a country with a cultural idealization of gender equality, could explain why men in Sweden assume responsibilities for domestic cooking without feeling emasculated. Papers II, III and IV draw on interviews with 31 men from 22 to 88 years of age and with different levels of interest in food. Paper II shows how domestic foodwork and cooking are associated with ideas of Swedish progress in terms of gender equality and culinary skills. Paper III demonstrates further that domestic cooking is not only a responsibility which men assume, but also a way of being sociable with friends, partners and children. Thus, both papers II and III challenge the idea that men only cook at home if they enjoy it. The data rather indicate that domestic foodwork responsibilities are a cultural expectation of men in Sweden, ingrained in desirable masculine practices. Paper IV explores men’s responses to media representations of food. The interviewed men responded to these representations with indifference, pragmatism, irony, and at times even hostility. In general, the responses are based on gender and age-differentiated taste distinctions and notions of masculine and culinary excess. Paper V uses a mix of texts (81 online texts and two magazines) and observations from the food fairs GastroNord (2014 and 2016), Mitt kök-mässan (2014) and the chef competition Bocuse d’Or Europe (2014) complemented with pictures and videos. I argue that a Swedish culinary community that promotes Swedish culinary excellence is constructed by drawing on preestablished national (self-)images. This culinary community is constructed as open and tolerant, with ethical concerns for the environment and for nonhuman animals. Its culinary icons are represented by chefs in whites and the leading restaurants. In sum, this dissertation provides empirical and theoretical contributions to both food studies and gender studies that critically scrutinize men and masculinities. Food-issues are permeated by gender, both in people’s everyday life and in the gastronomic elite.

Abstract Close to the Source is comprised of a series of nonfiction vignettes about the artisan, agricultural, and culinary methods of Italy. In Close to the Source the human relationship with nature, food, and art is reexamined while a series of rich characters help bring the material to life. Through interviews, research, and first-hand experiences, the author attempts to archive fading artisan and food-related techniques and rituals. In the process, a cultural critique about the importance of the practical arts in contemporary times emerges. The thesis contains four sections: Terra/Land; Art and Artisans; Pane/Bread; and Compagnia/Company.

Dans le secteur agroalimentaire, la caractérisation des gestes culinaires est considérée de plus en plus comme un levier d’innovation. En observant et en analysant la manière avec laquelle leurs produits sont appréhendés en cuisine par les usagers (consommateurs ou professionnels), les industriels peuvent en effet déceler des pistes d’amélioration ou des idées de nouveaux produits.Dans ce travail de recherche, nous proposons de nouvelles méthodes dédiées à la caractérisation des gestes culinaires. Leur caractère innovant repose sur le fait qu’elles relèvent d’une approche quantitative, et non d’une approche qualitative comme cela est usuellement le cas. Elles s’inspirent en partie de deux méthodes de caractérisation utilisées en analyse sensorielle : le tri libre et la Q-méthodologie binaireNous voyons comment des développements méthodologiques apportés à ces dernières permettent de caractériser des grands ensembles de stimuli. Ces développements sont liés à la fois à la procédure de recueil des données et à la procédure d’analyse statistique des données.En particulier, nous proposons plusieurs procédures statistiques permettant d’aborder des problématiques variées : l’analyse d’un ensemble de partitions contenant des données manquantes, la classification non supervisée de profils d’évaluations binaires basée sur la notion d’accord inter-évaluateurs, etc.Nous voyons ensuite que les deux méthodes de caractérisation quantitatives ‘améliorées’ sont applicables à des gestes culinaires / In the agri-food sector, the characterization of culinary techniques - through their observation and analysis - is increasingly seen as a lever for innovation. By analyzing how their products are used in the kitchen by the users (consumers or professionals), the manufacturers can detect improvement tracks or ideas for new products.In this research, we propose new methods dedicated to the characterization of culinary techniques. Their innovative nature is based on the fact that they are based on a quantitative approach, and not on a qualitative approach as is usually the case. They partially draw their inspiration in two methods of characterization used in sensory analysis: the free sorting and the binary Q-methodologyWe see how methodological developments brought to the latter make it possible to characterize large sets of stimuli. These developments are both related to the procedure of data collection and to the procedure of statistical analysis of the data. In particular, we propose several statistical procedures to address various issues: the statistical analysis of a set of partitions containing missing data, the unsupervised agreement-based clustering of a set of profiles of binary evaluations, etc.Then, we see that these two 'improved' quantitative methods of characterization can be successfully applicable to culinary techniques.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-08-10T10:35:07Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 IZABEL CRISTINA ALVES SIGNORELI.pdf: 8327169 bytes, checksum: 26180e7e7d2f71b5b6b454cc310ca180 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-03-15 / The study investigates the ways that food assumes in the kitchen of Goiás, through the book A Cozinha Goiana Estudo e receituário, of Bariani Ortencio, writer, folklorist and expert culture popular of Goiás. The author began his research in 1953. All references found, related to Goiás s culture, were selected and passed to individual bookmarks, so that future generations have a source of authentic and reliable research. Followed by 14 year by accurately recording the customs, beliefs and Goiás s language. In 1967 he published the first edition of A Cozinha Goiana - Estudos e receituário", in which was not confined to reap revenues. In the book makes Ortencio reference to literature, customs records of the population, compare techniques in order to make the recipes, studies the influences of eating habits among those born in the states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Goiás. This research therefore investigates the identity of the people with the traditions of Goiás s culinary, showing the regional dishes of the state and that in Goiás not eat like other regions of Brazil. Where the kitchen is a cultural symbol, memory, and also a factor identity. The rituals around food among natives of the state of Goiás are relevant aspects in its sociability, the author tried, in "Receita de Goianidade to establish a proposed to explain the association between food and identity, and clarify the issues guided eating habits from determinants specific stories and symbols that, in turn, helped in the composition of the myth of the peculiarities of belief born in Goiás. / O trabalho investiga os sentidos que a alimentação assume na cozinha goiana, através da obra A Cozinha Goiana Estudo e receituário, do escritor e folclorista Bariani Ortencio que é profundo conhecedor da cultura popular goiana. O autor iniciou suas pesquisas em 1953. Todas as referências que encontrava, relacionadas à cultura em Goiás, eram selecionadas e passadas para fichas individuais, porque entendia que, assim, as gerações futuras teriam uma fonte de pesquisa autêntica e confiável. Seguiu, por 14 anos, registrando com precisão os costumes, as crenças e o linguajar goiano. Em 1967, publicou a primeira edição de A Cozinha Goiana-Estudos e receituário , na qual não se limitou apenas a colher receitas. No decorrer da referida obra, Ortencio refere-se à literatura, registra costumes da população, compara técnicas no modo de fazer as receitas, estuda as influências dos costumes alimentares entre os mineiros, os paulistas e os goianos. Esta, pesquisa, portanto, investiga a identidade do povo goiano com as tradições culinárias, mostrando os pratos regionais do Estado e que em Goiás não se come como comem os brasileiros de outras regiões. Onde a cozinha é um símbolo cultural, memória, e também um fator de identidade. Os rituais em torno da alimentação entre os goianos são aspectos relevante a sua sociabilidade, o autor buscou, em Receita de Goianidade , construir uma proposta que explicasse a associação entre comida e identidade, além de tornar claras as questões que nortearam os hábitos alimentares a partir de determinantes histórias e símbolos específicos que, por sua vez, auxiliaram na composição do mito de goianidade.