Full Description
The centrality of food to the human experience always places it at the crux of global crises, whether catastrophic climate change, the collapse of biodiversity in our shared ecosystem, the threat of pandemics, or the poverty and suffering associated with resource scarcity. The continual reality of these challenges has prompted professionals throughout the food industry to seek innovative solutions, as chefs and restaurateurs adjust to customer demands and political imperatives for socially responsible civic action.
Chefs, Restaurants, and Culinary Sustainability explores how chefs around the world approach culinary sustainability in highly unstable times while working in myriad professional domains. Building on empirical data collected from a wide range of cultural, historical, political, and economic settings, the contributors to this collection provide a sophisticated and engaging examination of how chefs in diverse culinary contexts tackle the increasingly urgent societal and environmental need for a more secure food future.
Contents
Foreword - David Sutton Preface and Acknowledgements - Carole Counihan and Susanne HØjlund
Introduction: Chefs, Restaurants, and Culinary Sustainability
Susanne HØjlund and Carole Counihan
I. Culinary Sustainability and Taste
1. Chefs Creating Tasty and Sustainable School Food in the United States
Rachel E. Black
2. Restaurant Sustainability as a Form of Cultural Awareness: A Colombian Experience
Ana MarÍa Ulloa and Laura GarzÓn
3. Strategies in Vegan Food Experience Design: The Case of Bellies Restaurant in Stavanger, Norway
Jonatan Leer
4. Umamification as a Culinary Means for Sustainable Eating at Home and at Restaurants
Ole G. Mouritsen and Klavs StyrbÆk
II. Culinary Sustainability and Kitchen Practices
5. Expanding "Ethical" Cooking: Parisian Chefs' Everyday Approaches to Culinary Sustainability
RaÚl Matta
6. "Vegan Cookery for Me Is . . .": Israeli Vegan Chefs Negotiating Veganism and Sustainability
Liora Gvion
7. Sustainability as Craft: Introducing the Green Transition at Danish Culinary Schools
Susanne HØjlund and Nanna Hammer Bech
8. Research Chefs in the United States and Scalable Opportunities for Sustainable Food Solutions
Jonathan M. Deutsch
III. Culinary Sustainability and Social Relations
9. Sustainability through Social Commitments: Farm to Chef in the Era of COVID-19
Sarra Talib and Amy Trubek
10. Sustainability, Race, and Culture in New Orleans Restaurants in the Wake of the Pandemic
David Beriss and Lauren Darnell
11. "To Sustain the People": Native Chefs and the Food Sovereignty Movement
Elizabeth Hoover
IV. Culinary Sustainability and Diversity, Equity, and Activism
12. Black Chefs and Just Sustainability: Affirming Systems of Food and Racial Justice
Marilisa Navarro
13. A Cooks' Alliance: Building Food Awareness and Cultural Sustainability in Kenya
Michele Filippo Fontefrancesco and Dauro Mattia Zocchi
14. From New York's Silverbird to Santa Fe's Corn Dance CafÉ: Sustaining Indigenous Restaurants
L. Sasha Gora
15. Interrupting Food Waste through Sustainable Cuisine in Ecuador
Santiago Rosero and Joan Gross
