Kitchen, cooking, nutrition, and eating have become omnipresent cultural topics. They stand at the center of design, gastronomy, nutrition science, and agriculture. Artists have appropriated cooking as an aesthetic practice - in turn, cooks are adapting the staging practices that go with an artistic self-image. This development is accompanied by crisis of eating behaviour and a philosophy of cooking as a speculative cultural technique. This volume investigates the dimensions of a new culinary turn, combining for the very first time contributions from the theory and practice of cooking.
Nicolaj van der Meulen
Nicolaj van der Meulen (Prof. Dr.) is program director of the interdisciplinary teaching format »CoCreate« at the School of Art and Design at Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz. His research focuses on culinary aesthetics, philosophy of food, and image theory and image literacy.
Culinary Turn Aesthetic Practice Gastronomy Nova-regio-cooking Nutrition Culinary Arts Convivium Culture Aesthetics Food Studies Cultural Studies
»Dass ästhetisches Leben nicht ohne ethische, moralische, politische und soziale, also humane Grundlagen möglich ist, vermitteln die Autorinnen und Autoren in überzeugender [...] Weise.«
Jos Schnurer, www.socialnet.de, 31.05.2017
Besprochen in:
hotelstyle & gastro, 12 (2016)
www.zeit.de, 04.06.2017, Daniel Sigge
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