Culinary Tourism: Exploring Food Adventures Worldwide

1. CulinaryTourismHMGT 4989

2. Contact my email: MKrondl@citytech.cuny.edu Please use your cuny email address to contact me, otherwise I may dismiss your note as spam! I WILL BE CONTACTING YOU VIA EMAIL WITH IMPORTANT MESSAGES (“you will fail unless you come to the next class” or “we have changed the meeting location of the next culinary tour”) SO IF YOU DON’T CHECK IT BEFORE CLASS BAD THINGS MIGHT HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE. If you don’t check your citytech email on a regular basis, set up your account so that it forwards messages to another email address.

3. Assignments • Dream destination essay • due March 11 • Food Firsts (Challenging your Palate) Blog • ongoing last entry due May 6 • NYC Guidebook • ongoing, last entry due May 13 • Culinary Walking Tour Project • Brochure/website & paper due May 13 • Presentations: May 13, May

4. Field Trips • field trips are a mandatory part of the class • as long as the college is open we will meet, no matter the weather • plan on arriving at least 10 minutes early • bring a notepad, camera/camera phone • you will be expected to contribute at least 2 entries and/or comments to our blog after each trip • IF AND ONLY IF there is an emergency, my cell phone number is 917•749•0578

5. Open Lab • We will be using Open Lab for: • many reading assignments • links to useful websites • collaborative blogs • my Powerpoints will be available on Open Lab following each class • (see “Files” in right hand column in “Course Profile” • https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu

6. AssignedReading • Lucy Long, Culinary Tourism (see PDF under Files on Open Lab) • Jonathan Deutsch & Annie Hauck-Lawson, Gastropolis, Food and New York City • New York Times, “Dining In/Dining Out” Wednesday food section • Other readings as specified by professor

7. Grading Quizzes, Food Firsts Blog Posts, HMGT Blog/NYC Guide Book Posts 30 % Class participation/attendance 15 % Dream destination essay 15 % Culinary Walking Tour Project 40 % TOTAL 100 %

9. Why Travel? • business (meetings) • work (travel industry) • family • friends • romance • learning • spiritual reasons (pilgrimage) • adventure • fun • escape • special events

10. Types of Tourism • Valene Smith defined a tourist as "a temporarily leisured person who voluntarily visits a place away from home for the purpose of experiencing a change.” • personal vs communal • exploration of self vs. escape from routine (carnival) • leisure • adventure • ethnic tourism • cultural tourism • ecotourism

11. NYC Tourism • Mike Leco, publisher of USATourist.com, says that among his hundreds of thousands of readers, who are mostly foreign tourists, “New York City is the clear leader” as a tourist-attraction destination, “with Orlando (Disney World) in second place. Los Angeles, San Francisco and Las Vegas are probably next in line…”

12. Tourism Stats for NYC for 2013 • visitors domestic: 42.9 million • visitors international: 11.4 million • total: 54.3 million • visitor spending (international and domestic): $38.8 billion • Total wages generated by NYC tourism: $20.6 billion • Total NYC jobs supported by visitor spending: 348,200 • (stats: http://www.nycgo.com/articles/nyc-statistics-page)

13. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEVuELyZ0lU

14. The Culinary Tourist • Brillat-Savarin: “Tell me what you eat and I will tell you who you are.” • Lucy Long: “Sightseeing is only a partial engagement with otherness, whereas culinary tourism, utilizing the senses of taste, smell, touch, and vision, offers a deeper, more integrated level of experience. It engages one's physical being, not simply as an observer, but as a participant as well. • “The culinary tourist anticipates a change in the foodways experience for the sake of experiencing that change, not merely to satisfy hunger.”

15. The Concept of the “Other” • we often define our selves against an “other” • us vs. them • cultural, ethnic and even adventure tourism often involves experiencing a culture other than your own • level of engagement varies greatly depending on tourist

16. Authenticity • who defines authentic, the tourist or the local? • culinary tourists seek greater/lesser degrees of authenticity • existential tourist: intensely interested in the authenticity of his or her experience, maintains very rigid and objective criteria for judging that authenticity. • experimental tourist: maintains strict criteria for authenticity • experiential tourist: criteria for authenticity not as strict but still seeks “to participate vicariously in the authentic life of others.” • recreational tourist: more interested in having fun • diversionary tourists: do not consider authenticity an important quality and “remain totally…unconcerned with the problem of authenticity of their experiences.”

17. Edible vs. Palatable • Each person has their own comfort zone which is partly defined by culture, religion etc. • Edible vs. palatable (the first is what we can eat, the second what we want to eat) • Exotic vs. familiar • the culinary tourist is willing to push boundaries but how much varies on personality

18. Tourism as Theater • producer, director, actor, audience • who defines authenticity? • both the actor and the audience • the limits of authenticity • the actors may not want to share everything with the stranger • the audience may not want to step outside of their comfort zone

19. Next Week • kinds of culinary tourism • the practice of culinary tourism • a brief history of culinary tourism • reading assignments: on Open Lab (also see weekly schedule) & NYT! • student info form