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==19: NOV 11. Unit 5: Gastronomy and 3 points in American Food Culture==
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==20: NOV 11 - The Berlin Wisdom Paradigm==
  
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===Assigned Reading===
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===Assigned===
  
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:*Barber, Dan. Introduction ''The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food,'' (1-22). (22)
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:*Hall C3, “Heart and Mind” (18)
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:*Andrews, Geoff. Chapter 2: "The Critique of 'Fast Life'" ''The Slow Food Story'' (pp. 29-47). (18)
 
  
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===Andrews, Chapters 1 & 2, The Slow Food Story===
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===Hall, Wisdom, Chapter 3 "Heart and Mind"===
  
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====Chapter 1, "Politics in Search of Pleasure"====
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:*Note that Hall is telling something of the "sociology of knowledge" about the rise of wisdom research.
  
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(This wasn't assigned for us, but I have these notes to share:)
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:*Erikson -- idea of wisdom as end stage "8" of process of self-realization. A stage of development to deal with the approach of death and loss.   
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:*context for slow food: social movements of the 60's and 70's.  (Italian counter-culture.)
 
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:*low power radio stations common means: Radio Bra Onde Rosse.
 
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:*politics at Club Tenco, also the pursuit of pleasure.
 
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:*revival of traditional festivals: the singing for eggs (Cante i'euv)
 
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:*1982 incident: Montalcino Sagra del Tordo (thrush) Mention Arci clubs.
 
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::*in play: '''Is the pursuit of pleasure through healthy food and culture a capitalist bourgeoisie plot or a fundamental right to be advocated politically?'''
 
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:*formation of an "Arci Gola" (appetite)
 
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:*projects: Gambero Rosso, wine guides, Osterie d'Italia, guides to osterie.
 
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:*1986: wine poisoning scandal.  McDonalds opens in Rome at Spanish Steps.
 
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:*Slow Food Manifesto
 
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:*Parallel movement in US embodied on story of Alice Waters, founder of [http://www.chezpanisse.com/menus/restaurant-menu/ Chez Panisse]. Pollan also finds sources of these ideas in 1960s US counter-culture.
 
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:*Eco-gastronomy -- (a great sub-field of food study, by the way! cf. Dan Berber, The Third Plate) and the "politics of aesthetics" (only partly in line with Marxism).  (So Carlo Petrini is another candidate for Gramsci's authentic intellectual.)
 
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:*Projects: international food exhibitions, then Terra Madre (2004), related movements in Germany (Greens)
 
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:*slow food also has a conservative dimension.  Restoration and preservation of historical food systems.
 
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::*Mention experience with Guido and the ancient grains seminar.  Photos.
 
  
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====Chapter 2, "The Critique of 'Fast Life'"====
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::*Interesting hypothesis in face of growth of knowledge in gerontology about decay of faculties.  (Add details from Gwande, ''Being Mortal'')
  
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:*some key dates: McDonald's in Rome, 1986, incident between the two arci chapters (a moment in which politics and gastronomy interact to great effect!).   
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:*Vivian Clayton -- reflects on family member's traits.   
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:*critique of "productivity culture"; efficiency vs. frenzy; idea that you need to live faster because other things are accelerating (financial trade volume, sale, news cycles, social media posting and communication). Especially focused on speed. 
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::*poses question of meaning of wisdom and relation to age. (Note descriptors.)
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:*[In terms we have been using, Slow Food manifesto calls into question the "culinary cosmos" of the industrial lifestyle ''when it compromises basic human modes of experiencing pleasure in authentic and just food.'' ]
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::*her approach addressed a bias in geronotology toward focus on end of life.  Nothing redeeming about dying.  But maybe wisdom is.   
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:*critique includes resistance to corporate formations and rationalizations (degradation) of taste.  Slow Food is tied to leftist politics, but also has a US upper middle class "face" in the US site.  [https://www.slowfoodusa.org/?gclid=Cj0KEQjwzpfHBRC1iIaL78Ol-eIBEiQAdZPVKlmzqWS_FmOH2gJfU8ltX286Ru8IBHGg3w0LO9EgXVYaAjWK8P8HAQ] 
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::*Baltes - Life span developmental psychology.   
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:*Castell's theory of time-space compression -- capitalism more and more about speed of transactions.  circulation of capital.  (on edge of a big discussion about the future of work - piece work is coming back).   
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::*Clayton’s approach, like Baltes, was to first read cultural literature, like the Bible, which represents wisdom in judges, but also Job.  Follow statement on p. 43. Compare to Labouvie-Vief.  Also, note from the end of the chapter about her story.  Choice, seeing wisdom easier than doing it.
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:*Counter view of Charles Leadbeater and others: '''fast culture is the answer''', the problem is that we have all of these institutions from the 19th century and earlier slowing us down. 
 
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:*Victoria de Grazia, ''Irresistible Empire: America's Advance through 20th Century Europe'' -- American hegemony in food expressed in "reduction" of all class and value distinctions in food.  Rich and poor eat McD's.
 
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:*Ritzer's "McDonaldization of Society" -- "globalization of nothing" (social forms centrally conceived, centrally controlled and lacking in context).   
 
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:*Schlosser, Fast Food Nation:
 
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::*1970 6 billion on fast food; ("million" in the text is a mistake)
 
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::*2001 110 billion
 
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::*2010 200 billion (not in text)
 
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:*British "trolley towns"; American suburbs.  globalization of construction and architecture.
 
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:*Petrini on slowness: p. 39 read 
 
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:*Slow cities: features of slow cities
 
  
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:*[https://www.slowfoodusa.org/ Slow Food USA]
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:*Hall's account of Genesis myth: It’s not only about disobedience. Also about acquiring "original wisdom"  -- wisdom as the price of seeing things clearly.  Wisdom as necessarily acquired through transgression vs. living within limits.  Also "dark wisdom".
  
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====Small Group Discussion: Slow food culture====
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:*In turn toward a psychological construct, initial studies on lawyers inconclusive.  Clayton’s work creates excitement, but then no funding.  She leaves academia.  Interestingly, becomes a bee keeper.
  
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:*Does the slow food movement present an attractive ideal for you?
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:*Example of early Berlin Paradigm research - response to vignette - 15yo preg teen. Is wisdom non-absolutist?  
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:*For those of you for whom it is an attractive ideal, identify 3-5 ways that you might implement slow food culture in your life?
 
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:*Does Slow Food culture require a loss of productivity or is it more about reclaiming some of your time for an essential activity?
 
  
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:*Baltes, Smith, Staudinger, Kunzemann.  -- Berlin Wisdom Paradigm -- brief overview, 49ff.  “An expert knowledge system concerning the fundamental pragmatic of life.”  Show p. 95 from next reading, Baltes and Smith, “Toward a psych of wisdom..”
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:*Thought of wisdom as a process, not just a personal trait.  Could be instantiated in groups, societies…
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:*Studied proverbs — “heuristics”
  
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===Barber, "Introduction" ''The 3rd Plate''===
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::*Note how he derived his construct and method of research.  +96
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:*Early critics: Carstensen and Ardelt -- felt Baltes Wisdom Paradigm (BWP) didn't focus enough on emotion. (More in Hall C4)
  
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:*Browse to these three restaurants
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:*Monika Ardelt - first attempt to develop a valid wisdom rating scale.  Based on three dimensions: cognitive, reflective, and emotional.  Read p. 54.  Some anecdotes from people who got high ratings — Not necessarily highly educated, but all confronted adversity.
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::*Blue Hill and Stone Barnes -- as a project [[https://www.bluehillfarm.com/dine/stone-barns]]
 
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::*Chez Panisse [https://www.chezpanisse.com/]
 
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:*Story of Eight Row flint corn at Blue Hills. sig.  "varietal restoration" "heritage cultivation"
 
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::*Story of the summer of corn at Blue Hills Farm when Barber was a kid.  Note diffs. 
 
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::*planted in "Three Sisters"
 
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::*polenta not typically thought of as high flavor experience, but in this case it was.
 
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::*Barber says (8) that the polenta story is the kind of experience he found himself repeating.  What does he mean.  What are the main features of the polenta story?
 
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:*Barber's "Plates"
 
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::*some background on "farm to table" "artisanal eaters" "locavores" -- (another side of industrial food, esp. for a chef, is the effect of varieties and production methods on flavor). 
 
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::*chef as activist (p. 10 reference to Paul Bocuse) -- Wolfgang Puck -- eventually industrial food system produces a version of the chef's innovation.
 
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::*p. 11ff: Barber's critique of farm to table and the 1st and 2nd plates.  Criticizing the way we eat:  protein-centric plate, small side of veg  [http://chartsbin.com/view/1155 Protein consumption per capita by country]
 
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::*Some detail on Blue Hills.   
 
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:::*lamb chop story-- Problem: farm serving table.  Table is still in charge of the plate.  "cherry picking ingredients that are often ecologically demanding and expensive to grow" So, eliminate the menu!  p.14 top of 15.  Note characterization of American cuisine vs. French and Italian.  No peasant heritage to base it on.  Am: immoderation, big slabs of meat.  (Carla's story Fall 2018 - What it means to have a place based culinary identity). 
 
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::*16: Note discussion of '''cuisine''' - based on ingredients local and sustainable. 
 
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:::*1st, 2nd, 3rd plates 17.  Claim: "The future of cuisine will represent a paradigm shift, a new way of thinking about cooking and eating that defies Americans' ingrained expectations." 18 Note that he gives another definition of the 3rd Plate at p. 21.   
 
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::*18: "truly delicious food is dependent on an entire system of agriculture. .... 21: the thrid plate goes beyond raising awareness about the importance of farmers and sustainable agriculture.  I helps us recognize that what we eat is part of an integrated whole, a web of relationships, that cannot be reduced to single ingredients"
 
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::*The food "supply chain" is an ecology. The implication is that we can assess it in terms of sustainability, flavor, quality, diversity...etc.
 
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===Practicing Critical gastronomy on your own diet and supply chain===
 
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:*How much of the following is true of your diet?
 
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::*When I think of dinners, I think in terms of the first or second plates.  +3
 
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::*I typically check to see where produce comes from and try to buy seasonally. +3
 
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::*I know which of the things in my pantry and fridge are least sustainable and I have concern about limiting them in my diet.  (Not just meat, but certainly meat.  Also, coffee, strawberries, fruit from Chile or any distant place, industrial foods with high processing, industrial ag products.) +3
 
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::*I agree with the consensus of nutritionists about protein, contra my culture's practice. +3 Or, I'm thinking about it more now. +2
 
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::*I want my supply chain to maximize not only sustainability, but also flavor, which means good soil health and food grown with care. +3
 
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::*I regularly look for "trade ups" or incremental improvements to move me toward better gastronomy and better food values. +3
 

Latest revision as of 21:57, 11 November 2024

20: NOV 11 - The Berlin Wisdom Paradigm

Assigned

  • Hall C3, “Heart and Mind” (18)

Hall, Wisdom, Chapter 3 "Heart and Mind"

  • Note that Hall is telling something of the "sociology of knowledge" about the rise of wisdom research.
  • Erikson -- idea of wisdom as end stage "8" of process of self-realization. A stage of development to deal with the approach of death and loss.
  • Interesting hypothesis in face of growth of knowledge in gerontology about decay of faculties. (Add details from Gwande, Being Mortal)
  • Vivian Clayton -- reflects on family member's traits.
  • poses question of meaning of wisdom and relation to age. (Note descriptors.)
  • her approach addressed a bias in geronotology toward focus on end of life. Nothing redeeming about dying. But maybe wisdom is.
  • Baltes - Life span developmental psychology.
  • Clayton’s approach, like Baltes, was to first read cultural literature, like the Bible, which represents wisdom in judges, but also Job. Follow statement on p. 43. Compare to Labouvie-Vief. Also, note from the end of the chapter about her story. Choice, seeing wisdom easier than doing it.
  • Hall's account of Genesis myth: It’s not only about disobedience. Also about acquiring "original wisdom" -- wisdom as the price of seeing things clearly. Wisdom as necessarily acquired through transgression vs. living within limits. Also "dark wisdom".
  • In turn toward a psychological construct, initial studies on lawyers inconclusive. Clayton’s work creates excitement, but then no funding. She leaves academia. Interestingly, becomes a bee keeper.
  • Example of early Berlin Paradigm research - response to vignette - 15yo preg teen. Is wisdom non-absolutist?
  • Baltes, Smith, Staudinger, Kunzemann. -- Berlin Wisdom Paradigm -- brief overview, 49ff. “An expert knowledge system concerning the fundamental pragmatic of life.” Show p. 95 from next reading, Baltes and Smith, “Toward a psych of wisdom..”
  • Thought of wisdom as a process, not just a personal trait. Could be instantiated in groups, societies…
  • Studied proverbs — “heuristics”
  • Note how he derived his construct and method of research. +96
  • Early critics: Carstensen and Ardelt -- felt Baltes Wisdom Paradigm (BWP) didn't focus enough on emotion. (More in Hall C4)
  • Monika Ardelt - first attempt to develop a valid wisdom rating scale. Based on three dimensions: cognitive, reflective, and emotional. Read p. 54. Some anecdotes from people who got high ratings — Not necessarily highly educated, but all confronted adversity.
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