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Several documentaries about celebrity chefs were released between 2010 and 2012, building on trends that have turned knowledge of and access to fine-dining restaurants into a crucial arena for globalized elite’s construction of social status and cultural capital. The analysis of three of these films – Three Stars, Jiro Dreams of Sushi, and Step up to Your Plate – indicates how media contribute to the formation of a global canon of practices, performances, and discourses that naturalize the accomplished, knowledgeable, and male chef trained in established and prestigious food traditions as the culinary ideal.
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The article adds to the analysis of food media, and in particular film, in the formation of globalized canons of taste in terms of images, languages, and imagines practices.
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Food documentaries about celebrity chefs indicate the existence and growth of a globalized "foodie" culture around elitist experiences and practices, which remain for many at the level of desires and aspirations.
Fabio Parasecoli
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This page is a summary of: Starred cosmopolitanism: Celebrity chefs, documentaries, and the circulation of global desire, Semiotica, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/sem-2016-0098.
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