Chefs, Restaurants, and Culinary Sustainability

by Carole Counihan (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781682262658
Publisher:	University of Arkansas Press
Publication date:	01/06/2025
Series:	Food and Foodways
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.71(d)

About the Author

Carole Counihan is professor emerita of anthropology at Millersville University and editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal Food and Foodways. She is the author of Italian Food Activism in Urban Sardinia, A Tortilla Is Like Life, and Around the Tuscan Table.

Susanne Højlund is an anthropologist working on taste and food culture, chef education, and children’s perceptions of taste. She is head of the Food Culture Studies (FOCUS) center at Aarhus University. She is coeditor of several books including Making Taste Public and Sugar and Modernity in Latin America.

Table of 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