For students

Now that you have looked at, ideally, more than a few pages you are faced with a few questions. 


There are two directions in which we could travel together. 

The process approach

Is the "process approach" of use?  If so, we can look at it in the context of the dishes on the ICC module.  There will be some semantics to look at leading to the CFA article    http://www.gastronomyafharrison.co.uk/page251.php    .
    

Semantics in more detail


How much interest is there in the semantics of culinary space?   A quick look at the CFA article will lead us to consider the conceptual aspects of the culinary pyramid within the paper here  http://www.gastronomyafharrison.co.uk/page197.php     .

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Do find a way of letting me know on and preferably before Friday.  http://www.gastronomyafharrison.co.uk/page360.php

After our session on Monday, sign up for a post-grad course on "Types of Cuisine"!     

You won't be alone in the world.  http://www.stanford.edu/class/linguist62n/

On that type of course, students might consider such items as

". . .  in the most condensed example, the food system accommodates the scheme of the restaurant menu, whose rules define a proper meal (utterance) as a horizontal array of courses (parts of speech) in the culinary grammar where several meals are framed between appetizer and dessert and where each course is vertically substituted by an allowable synonym (e.g., fish, steak, or fowl in the middle courses). It is due to this perpendicularity between a comprehensive framework and the vernacular of a local variety — the semiotic language-speech (lange-parole) distinction — that architecture’s form-function duality has sustained itself beyond jurisdictions of critical doubt." http://postmediumcritique.org/blog/2010/01/space-and-structure-in-post-architecture/

Still not alone

"Chinese culture is among the most food-conscious ones. Through China’s long history, food has always been a means of communication, a symbol of good life and at the same time a target of criticism for its indulgence and improper distribution.

The seminar will discuss  [in the context of   .. traditional and contemporary China], the semantics of food-generated expressions, as well as the significance of two important subjects of Chinese food culture: tea and jiu (alcoholic beverages)."  https://campus.kzoo.edu/sharedpassages/syl/semn220_s10_chu.pdf