Contemporary Special Interest Tourism Individual Report Outline
Why people take part in Culinary Tourism?
1. Introduction
In the twenty first century, there is a rising trend of people spending lesser time cooking at home and would rather spent most of their timing eating out due to the hassle in cooking and washing up. Nevertheless, this did not damper the interest in many people for their passion towards food and wine as a leisure experience.
Many people then take this opportunity to travel to different places or countries to taste the different type of food due the cultural differences. For example, travelling overseas to attend or visit a culinary school, dining at restaurants famous for their local cuisines or for the celebrity chefs and also attending tours that is targeted at just one product. E.g. Vineyard and winery tours in France. (Shenoy, 2005) Thus, this study attempts to find out why people participate in culinary tourism.
1.1 Definition of Culinary Tourism
Culinary Tourism which is also known as, Gastronomic or Food Tourism refers to trips made to destinations where the local food and beverages are the main motivating factors for travel. (Manolis, 2010) Also, the International Culinary Tourism Association defined this tourism as “The pursuit and enjoyment of unique and memorable food and drink experiences, both far and near.” (WorldFoodTravelAssociation, n.d.)
1.2 Characteristics of Culinary Tourism
Imagery and Positioning
Food and wine are the key element
Ally Weix Dr. Tracy Writ 1133: “Recipe and Cookbook Rhetorics” May 31st 2023 A Look into the Overlooked Food Deserts Issue Communities across the United States have been classified as “food deserts.” The phrase “food desert” refers to the idea that these communities are often separated from more developed communities. This type of isolation causes individuals to have limited access to grocery stores containing foods of proper nutrition.
Tourism is a big part of the world’s economy today. People wanting to experience different cultures through eating their food and attempting to live a day in someone else's shoes. In David Foster Wallace’s essay “Consider the Lobster”, he provides a thought provoking and funny commentary on american food tourism at the Maine Lobster Festival. The main industries at the Maine Lobster Festival are lobster and tourism that are both at their peak during the summer season.
The documentary Food Inc. by Robert Kenner brought attention to what happens in the food industry behind closed doors. It goes into depth about the poor way animals are kept. This documentary really brought to light issues that affect everyone, but very little is known about the food we put into our bodies because of big food companies that care more about money than health. To begin, The impact of fast food corporations on the American food production system is the main topic of the first part of Food, Inc. Food Inc. explains that in the 1930s, fast food became a very successful business.
The phenomenon is more prevalent in low-income, racial and ethnic minority neighborhoods, as it were reported
In articles titled “Why everyone should stop calling immigrant food ethnic” by Lavanya Ramanathan and “Stop thinking and just eat: when ‘food adventuring’ trivializes cultures” by Ashlie Stevens, different perspectives on the role of food adventuring in cultural appropriation are offered. In her article, Ashlie advocates food adventuring and believes it is an ideal way to facilitate cultural appropriation. On the contrary, Lavanya’s article is highly critical of cultural appropriation and she emphasises on omission of the word ‘Ethnic food’ and encourages people to appreciate food as it is. Even though Ashlie’s work is written in simple language, she fails to convey her stand clearly because of the flaws in structuring of the passage. Similarly, Lavanya’s article portrays her stand clearly but is unable to reach the readers due to the use of complex words, intricate examples and analogies.
“Why Everyone Should Stop Calling Immigrant Food ‘Ethnic’” by Lavanya Ramanathan (features reporter) and “Stop Thinking And Just Eat: When ‘Food Adventuring’ Trivializes Cultures” by Ashlie Stevens (food and culture writer) are articles published in the American daily newspaper “The Washington Post” and British daily newspaper “the Guardian”, respectively. Both articles aim to communicate to readers on the connection between food adventuring and culture. Through application of personal experiences, experts’ views and pathos, Ramanathan argues on how the phrase “ethnic food” is labelled to foreign cuisines and the discrimination that revolves around it. Stevens points out how people tend to summarise entire culture of a country to a particular cuisine or food trend through the use of pathos, ethos and credible evidences. Although there is credibility to both authors’ view, Ramanathan’s argument focuses more on emotional appeal while Stevens’s is more logically inclined.
MEXICAN RESTAURANT NEAR ME The restaurant business is one of the most lucrative businesses around the world that has a guarantee of sales round the year regardless of the increase or decrease of daily sales. A restaurant or eatery as sometimes known is a business which prepares and serves food and drinks to customers in exchange of cash or payment in terms of money. Food or meals are usually served and eaten in the premises hosting the restaurants even though some restaurants offer take out and food delivery services to its customers upon making an order.
I was five years old in kindergarten at the West Farm School, when I learned to makes soups, cornbread and cut up vegetables with a sharp knife. I ground the corn kernels until they were as soft as a duckling. The cornbread smelled the room with a sweet aroma. You could hear the chopping of the knives slice each vegetable carefully. The Stone soup we made smelled as a good as your mom’s home cooking.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that the culinary industry is flourishing expeditiously and is expected to do so for the next upcoming years. According to National Restaurant Association, the United States of America’s culinary industry sales are expected to hit a record high of $709.2 billion in 2015 in which will represent the sixth consecutive year of the growth in culinary industry. This creates a ripple effect, generating an immense demand of chefs to take on these positions and the education sector has taken advantage by rushing forward to fulfil these need and offers plethora of courses suit to the interest of prospective students. Culinary schools are notorious for training vocational educations and in the field training, establishing qualified professionals ready to find their feet in the industry. Needless to say, culinary students, do receive advantages at the drop of a hat but is certainly not a golden ticket to the culinary industry.
Cooking is a delicious skill to have in your retirement years. Who needs to buy expensive pre-made dishes when you can make your own from scratch? Who needs to spend money on processed, pre-made and sodium-filled food when you can prepare healthy alternatives? In many cultures, food is considered not just a necessity of life or a tasty treat, but a whole social language.
Fast food restaurants should introduce a healthier and inexpensive seperate menu different from the burgers, fries, shakes, etc. They should introduce a menu of healthy foods (fruits and vegetables) along with salads and yogurts. These foods should be priced at around $1.00-$2.00 on the menu as similar to a dollar menu from Mcdonalds. This would help reduce the number of calories and fats that are in regular menu items and cause the obesity rate to increase every year. Plus, the items would be cheaper than the other unhealthy foods if you are in a budget.
For decades, the fast food industry has occupied a monstrous portion of American society’s diet; weaving its thread of convenience into the tapestry of American culture, creating patterns that resemble a cheap and substandard tradition. America is so accustomed to this routine that society has become oblivious to fast food’s effects on the development of our culture. While the industry has transformed this nation, it has also deliberately changed the cultures of other nations as well by plaguing them with America fast food franchises. This is widely known “Americanizing”, which is placed American fast food restaurants around other countries in hopes to transition their culture to resemble America’s. Although fast food restaurants possess a
5.1.3 American Diet With the development of the modern society, there is an undeniable fact that the diet habits of American people have undergone enormous changes over the last decades (Pillsbury 187), especially in the aspects of daily meal structure and the choices of food ingredients. Generally speaking, in recent years, American families spend more money on having meals outside the home (for instance, in the restaurants), which reflects that the conventional eating habit of sharing foods with family members on the table at home has suffered the decrease or even the disappearance in American society, as an estimation shows that at present, Americans only eat with their family members at home once or twice per week on average (Pillsbury
The above description do set the scene part for this essay on the tourist behaviour and it is the main initial point for the final description of the topic which is to be shaped further. To completely understand the tourist behaviour, it requires searching out the individual experiences and the motivations of travelling. There are many of the researches and studies one in past by the great authors and researchers on the individual experiences and their motivations of travelling. The tourist behaviour in recent past has been studied with great efforts and many of the conclusions had been drawn regarding the crucial factors which do have an impact on the decision making of the tourist’s. There is a great risk involved in the process of destinations decision making.
Therefore, tourism may be defined as the activities, processes and outcomes by the relationship and interaction among the tourist, government, suppliers of the tourism, the host communities and the environment that surrounding the destination which involved in attracting and accommodating of the visitors (Goeldner & Ritchie, 2009). According to Goelner & Ritchie (2009), there are four different perspectives of tourism can be identified from the tourist, business operator who providing goods and services, government of the host destination area and the local community. The first group is the tourists or visitors. They are the group who search for various travel experiences and satisfaction physically and psychologically.