Evaluating materiality in food waste reduction interventions
This paper assesses how interventions utilising material apparatus can drive food waste reduction in professional kitchens. Using non-participant observation and interviews, this study evaluated work-based experiments to cut waste in luxury hotels. The paper focuses on the impacts of one specific in...
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| description | This paper assesses how interventions utilising material apparatus can drive food waste reduction in professional kitchens. Using non-participant observation and interviews, this study evaluated work-based experiments to cut waste in luxury hotels. The paper focuses on the impacts of one specific intervention: the introduction of small, transparent food waste bins, positioned at each food preparation station. The findings examine how the material properties of these apparatus, including size, calibration and transparency, coupled with their location, shaped chefs' food waste related practices. Moreover, the findings show how chefs' organisational and occupational norms interact with the influence exerted by utensils to create new meanings and assign value to food, waste and the craft skills used to reduce it. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4385a64326e04ffdb40dd8713fb66a562022-12-21T22:32:56ZengElsevierAnnals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights2666-95792020-11-0111100002Evaluating materiality in food waste reduction interventionsGaurav Chawla0Peter Lugosi1Rebecca Hawkins2University of South Wales, Newport City Campus, Usk Way, Newport NP20 2BP, UKOxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK; Corresponding author.Oxford Brookes University, Headington Campus, Oxford OX3 0BP, UKThis paper assesses how interventions utilising material apparatus can drive food waste reduction in professional kitchens. Using non-participant observation and interviews, this study evaluated work-based experiments to cut waste in luxury hotels. The paper focuses on the impacts of one specific intervention: the introduction of small, transparent food waste bins, positioned at each food preparation station. The findings examine how the material properties of these apparatus, including size, calibration and transparency, coupled with their location, shaped chefs' food waste related practices. Moreover, the findings show how chefs' organisational and occupational norms interact with the influence exerted by utensils to create new meanings and assign value to food, waste and the craft skills used to reduce it.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666957920300021ChefsFood wasteKitchenMaterialitySocial practicesSociomateriality |
| spellingShingle | Gaurav Chawla Peter Lugosi Rebecca Hawkins Evaluating materiality in food waste reduction interventions Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights Chefs Food waste Kitchen Materiality Social practices Sociomateriality |
| title | Evaluating materiality in food waste reduction interventions |
| title_full | Evaluating materiality in food waste reduction interventions |
| title_fullStr | Evaluating materiality in food waste reduction interventions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Evaluating materiality in food waste reduction interventions |
| title_short | Evaluating materiality in food waste reduction interventions |
| title_sort | evaluating materiality in food waste reduction interventions |
| topic | Chefs Food waste Kitchen Materiality Social practices Sociomateriality |
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