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The innkeeper's sister
Grayson Blake always has a purpose--and never a moment to lose. He's come home to Honey Ridge to convert a historic gristmill into a restaurant, but his plans crumble like Tennessee clay when the excavation of a skeleton unearths a Civil War mystery and leads him back to a beautiful and familiar stranger. Once a ballet dancer, now co-owner of the Peach Orchard Inn, Valery Carter harbors pain as deep as the secrets buried beneath the mill. But spending time with Grayson offers Valery a chance to let go of her past and imagine a happier future. And with the discovery of hidden messages in aged sheet music, both their hearts begin to open. Bound by attraction, and compelled to resolve an old crime that links the inn and the mill, Grayson and Valery encounter a song of hurt, truth and hope.
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Kitchens
Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. A new preface updates this riveting exploration of how restaurants actually work, both individually and as part of a larger culinary culture.
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The Contradiction Between Culinary Innovation Research and Gastro Tourism Practice
This historical review explores a descriptive-informative overview of cuisine as a component of gastro-tourism and travel. The paper reports on contemporary culinary innovation offerings in a South African context, analysing the links – or absence thereof – between academia and the gastro-tourism industry, to illustrate the ambiguity between research and practice in culinary innovation and its effects on the gastro-tourism industry. The qualitative methodology employed was informed by the historically oriented systematic literature review process. This was guided by a structured approach to determine relevant source material that would be useful for the historical literature review purpose. Evidence searches for literature from various sources such as scholarly journals and professional magazines, grey literature and personal reviews within the industry were undertaken. The examples in this paper highlight the potential unstructured innovation taking place within the South African food service environment without supported evidence from academic research. Role-players in both research and the gastro-tourism fields could apply properly researched food heritage and gastro-nationalism interventions to draw tourists and allow them to experience innovative use of local indigenous produce and food heritage innovations. Examples include Wild Peach (Landolphia kirkii) or Sand Apricot Vine (Umkuzi in Zulu) fruit leather disk covering a cheese and fruit plate, or swirls of fruit leather used to decorate a carrot and Marula Bundt cake, made from bright Umnumbela or Transvaal Milk-plum purée, and Marula (Sclerocarya birrea) pulp in the carrot cake batter. The research highlights the limited available data, to establish a viable link between academia and the gastro-tourism industry. Despite this limitation, the paper foregrounds the efforts being made towards culinary innovation within the South African culinary industry. Simultaneously it also illustrates the originality of this research and the importance of improved collaboration.
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Precarity and Class Consciousness in Contemporary Swedish Working-Class Literature
This article analyses aesthetical–political strategies for the promotion of class consciousness among workers in a few examples of contemporary Swedish working-class literature from different genres that describe and criticize precarious working conditions. Special attention is given to how these texts engage in dialogue with the notion of the precariat and to the authors’ use of decidedly literary forms. One important result is that Swedish working-class writers highlight the heterogeneity among those working under precarious conditions while also arguing that they share certain economic conditions, both amongst each other and with members of other groups (especially the traditional working class). Furthermore, it is argued that the use of literary forms (as opposed to, e.g., reportage or documentary) reflects the absence in the precariat of class consciousness, and the authors’ belief that literature can contribute to the creation of such a consciousness.
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Dance in Ethiopia: Traditionality and Contemporariness
Special IssueSites in Contestation: Reading Contemporary Popular Culture in AfricaDance practices in Ethiopia remained vibrant, albeit transformed, as the country transitioned from feudalism to socialism (1974), and then to neoliberal capitalism (1991). For centuries, a vast array of movement traditions has been essential to religious and communal rituals in Ethiopia. Today, traditional Ethiopian dance is most visible in tourist restaurants or YouTube videos. The trajectory of dance from ritualised practices to commercialised performances presents a seeming paradox: traditional Ethiopian dance as we know it today is, in fact, a modernised performance genre serving multiple functions: memory transmission, ideological dissemination, and profit generation, among others. In the 1980s, the socialist state harvested dances from around the country to produce “modernised” performances on the stages of government theatres, propagating the ideology of national unity amidst border wars and internal oppression. In the 1990s, as Ethiopia opened to the West, these dances continued to be performed on restaurant stages, not so much to propagandise for the state as to generate profit for the industry. The modernisation of traditional dance continues in Ethiopia, under the auspices of neoliberal privatisation, which has also led to the westernisation of youth culture. Since the late 1990s, a group of young Ethiopians have devoted themselves to contemporary dance by adopting Western aesthetics and distinguishing their practice from traditional dance. Recently, they have grappled with the imperative to infuse Ethiopian dance traditions in their work in order to be recognised in the global dance field. Through dance ethnography, oral histories, and video archives, this paper illuminates both traditionality and contemporariness as historical constructs - categories of differential powers used to organise the current dance field in Ethiopia.
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Ketchum's history of feminist restaurants and cafes in Ontario, Canada, in the mid 1970s to early 1980s encourages us to consider the importance of space to the formation of feminist solidarities and political organizing, while Pergadia's analysis of the geological understandings that undergird the work of both Gayle Rubin and Judith Butler invites us to rethink the temporalities through which gendered and sexed subjects, as well as academic disciplines, are formed. [...]to purely verbal literary forms, Chute claims that new experimental forms of graphic texts emphasize the \"embodiment inherent to comics in its processes of production - in which the hand-drawn mark indexes the body of the maker- [and so] helps to instantiate the form . . . as one that is deeply embodied\" in the comics form. The final essay of this issue, Samantha Pergadia's \"Geologies of Sex and Gender: Excavating the Materialism of Gayle Rubin and Judith Butler,\" shifts our attention away from the temporalities of individual life trajectories toward the overarching temporalities through which gendered and sexed subjects are formed as well as the disciplines that examine these issues. Through close attention to Rubin and Butler's \"shared sense of temporal organization that stems from the geologic,\" as indexed by their respective use of fossil and rock tropes, Pergadia's article further underscores queer theory's competing understandings of matter and its constitution as a field, as well as its unresolved tensions that crosscut ongoing debates among new materialist feminists.
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Conflict Kitchen and Enemy Kitchen: Socially Engaged Food Pedagogy
In this article, we examine food-engaged art practice and its artistic and pedagogical possibilities. First, we describe the precedents of socially engaged food art practices and provide a detailed account of Conflict Kitchen and Enemy Kitchen, from which we envision new pedagogical possibilities to embrace food and cooking as socially engaged art. In the second part of the study, we discuss the two kitchens through Deleuzian concepts such as nomadism, agencément, and becoming-others, to explore and encourage a shift from the pedagogy of being to the pedagogy of becoming. We argue that art educators pay attention to the becoming pedagogy as a rhizomatic, transforming, and unresting status of socially engaged learning, challenging the being pedagogy of the structured, goals-oriented, and standard-based learning.
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We Were Looking for Our Violins
This essay examines a creative dialogue between painters and poets, among them Nissim Ezekiel, Adil Jussawalla, Bhupen Khakhar, Arun Kolatkar, Arvind Krishna Mehrotra, Gieve Patel, and Sudhir Patwardhan, in Bombay (Mumbai) during a period that encompassed Khakhar's first solo show at the Jehangir Art Gallery in 1965 and the publication of four books of poetry by Clearing House, an independent press established in 1976 by Jussawalla, Kolatkar, Mehrotra, and Patel. Through a close analysis of word and image, it illuminates the distinctive aesthetics and politics of these artists encapsulated by the terms
and
. The Bombay painters and poets came to lifting—documenting and defamiliarizing—their environment by citing and subverting street signs, advertisements, state propaganda, calendar art, film posters, and newspaper photographs. They took to loafing—a mode of critical observation and analysis, and the pursuit of committed deprofessionalization and translation across spaces—and mobilized the ordinary, yet extraordinary, spaces of the
(areca nut wrapped in betel leaf) shop and the Irani restaurant as metaphors of artistic sociability and subjectivity. Through lifting and loafing, the Bombay painters and poets offered a critique of nationalist and bourgeois values, as well as the artistic establishment represented by associations and institutions such as the Progressive Artists Group and Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy School of Art. They diverged from their predecessors and peers in an emphasis on everyday life and found objects, and in bringing together the visual and verbal worlds exemplified by the Baroda (Vadodara)-based journal
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Where to Eat, Drink And Stay in Geneva
Restored to its former glory by architectural firm Pierre-Yves Rochon for luxury hospitality group Oetker Collection, it offers the city's only Guerlain spa, the Michelin-starred Atelier Robuchon led by executive chef Olivier Jean and Le Jardinier, headed by chef Alain Verzeroli - and of course, a majestic vista that stretches from the lake to the snowy cap of the Mont Blanc. Produce for its restaurant and bar are locally sourced and seasonal; heating and cooling systems use renewable energies in state-of-the-art closed-loop systems connected to the local district heating network and the running water source located under the hotel, and there's even state-of-the-art electrochromic glass technology on the windows to ensure guests don't lose any of the view - or the energy. Regional and seasonal ingredients sourced from small farms and local producers are given pride of place but the real star here is the wine cellar, which offers hard-to-find gems in a selection that includes biodynamic wines and more.
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SYNTHESIZING VIEWS ON TOURISM AND CULTURAL PROFILES – JOJO MOYES' THE SHIP OF BRIDES
The paper analyzes the introductory part of the novel The Ship of Brides by Jojo Moyes, as, given its synthetic but inclusive nature, it provides relevant intimations in what regards issues pertaining to cultural profiling and identities, focusing on - but not reduced to - the Indian and British ones. Other interesting matters come to the fore, besides cultural traits, and the whole information is gathered around two cores on which the two main sections making up the body of the paper are built. In the first, we analyze various tourism trends and types, noticing the way in which the text tends to place most of them in oppositions and distinctions - mass versus individual or responsible tourism, real and surrogate tourism experiences, reality and construct, heritage versus poverty or black tourism, eurocentrism and exotic cultures, financially deprived versus consumerist countries. The following section focuses initially on cultural characteristics and stereotypes regarding age (the elderly and youth), social status, class society, dress codes for women and the perception of gender difference, then passes on to throwing a glance at the surrounding physical, spatial realities: the slum neighborhood, the industrialized areas, poverty, hygiene issues and smells, the social arena. The conclusions draw on the complexity of the aspects tackled in the novel prologue.
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