Dining and Gastronomy

The idea of delicacy varies, but is the range wider across time or across geography today? You’ll find it hard to decide when you hear of some popular foods in history and abroad. And where are creative chefs looking for inspiration with ingredients and recipes? New kinds of experiences in dining, the impact of technology on hospitality, and of course, advances in sustainability of the industry.

© 2020 Tanay and Sach

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Film quote: the voices of Helen Mirren and Om Puri from The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014). Star chef neighbours spar over cultural differences in the defining good cuisine.

Dish icon from Pause08.

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Links:

The very first dinner party

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn19376-tortoise-banquet-remains-of-the-oldest-feast-found/

A very presidential club with a nearly-extinct menu

https://www.saveur.com/history-of-turtle-soup-hunting/

Popular foods once weren’t

https://www.history.com/news/once-forbidden-foods

Ketchup was once a medicine

https://www.fastcompany.com/1673352/how-500-years-of-weird-condiment-history-designed-the-heinz-ketchup-bottle

In Japan, chillies first went into socks

https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2015/07/17/food/history-vegetable-hated-japanese-children/

‘Hawaiian’ pizza?

http://time.com/4814056/hawaiian-pizza-pineapple-sam-panopoulos-death/

World’s cheapest Michelin-starred meal

https://www.businessinsider.in/RANKED-The-50-cheapest-Michelin-starred-meals-in-the-world/articleshow/66005549.cms

Experiential dining: Ukraine style

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/15/world/city-tied-to-masochism-finds-link-painful-sure-but-some-like-it.html

Zero-tolerance coffee

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20190402-these-coffee-snobs-ban-milk-and-sugar

Entomophagy is the future!

https://guides.loc.gov/entomophagy/internet-resources

https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/anthropology-in-practice/whats-stopping-us-from-eating-insects/

Paradigm-challenging foods: China

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-urine-eggs/urine-soaked-eggs-a-spring-taste-treat-in-china-city-idUSBRE82S0EE20120329

Paradigm-challenging foods: France (Foie gras is not their cruelest dish.)

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/11101187/Ortolans-could-Frances-cruellest-food-be-back-on-the-menu.html

How green is your cafe? A paper cup grown on trees!

https://www.dezeen.com/2018/07/31/creme-creates-sustainable-plastic-cup-alternative-from-gourds/

Brazilian chef bringing indigious foods to fine dining tables

https://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/26/world/daring-fare-from-the-amazons-mouth-to-yours.html

Foraging for fine dining

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-Y6cJvIQwY 

Fighting unhealthy eating at the restaurant itself

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.2011.0224

A business promoting Home chefs

https://www.authenticook.com/