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1. 1. Gastronomy as a tool for peace and resistance in the Holy Land

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   Author : Ulrica Söderlind; [2019]
   Keywords : Gastronomy; The Holy Land; peace; conflict; religion; interfaith relations; resistance; food; beverage; education; sacred order;

   Abstract : This thesis is a study within the international master program “Religion in Peace and Conflict” at the department of theology at Uppsala University. The study should be seen as a microstudy over the role gastronomy plays as a tool for peace and resistance in the Holy Land. READ MORE

3. 2. Taking positions – students' interactions in an educational restaurant context

   University essay from Umeå universitet/Enheten för restauranghögskolan

   Author : Kajsa Hult; [2018]
   Keywords : control; culinary arts; cultural capital; field; practices; fält; gastronomi; kontroll; kulturellt kapital; praktiker;

   Abstract : Running a restaurant as a course in university implies several complicated conditions, some of these conditions include teamwork and students agreeing with each other, and this tends to become problematic when students take positions in the educational restaurant. This thesis aims to clarify such positions by using Bourdieu’s concepts of habitus, field and cultural capital. READ MORE

4. 3. Worth it? - A visual reading of spectacle, food porn and culinary capital in YouTube food media

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Author : Josefin Larsson; [2018]
   Keywords : Food; Visuality; Youtube; “Worth it”; Spectacle; Food porn; Culinary capital; Cultural Sciences; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : Studies on food media rarely engage with the visual aspects. If it does it is mostly concerning cookbooks, television and film. This thesis will take another approach by examining food media on YouTube, through the YouTube channel Buzzfeed and their series “Worth it”. READ MORE

5. 4. Why children are the better cooks and better people - How MasterChef Junior reinforces the 'taste of luxury and freedom', gives children high culinary capital and portrays them as having a multitude of positive characteristics

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

   Author : Carolin Schmeh; [2014]
   Keywords : MasterChef Junior; Culinary capital; Taste of luxury and freedom; Food as art; Visual culture; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : In this paper I explore how the US-American competitive cooking show MasterChef Junior assigns its 8 to 13- year-old contestants with a notion of strength. In the first part of the paper I will demonstrate how the show constructs different categories of knowledge and values of food and food practices which I will define as soft and hard culinary capital. READ MORE