Pâte à Choux, a Love Story: Expressions of a culinarian

Culinary aesthetics: World-traveling with culinary arts

“…Instead of merely applying Dewey's theory, I was "thinking with theory" (Jackson & Mazzei, 2013), abductively putting several Deweyan conceptions to the test by questioning the appropriateness of each theoretical component and its interchange with the subject matter. To support to my conceptualization, I also consulted several post-Deweyan thinkers with similar food, art, and aesthetic interests (Kuehn, 2005(Kuehn, , 2012Koczanowicz, 2016;Leddy, 2012Leddy, , 2021Lee et al, 2020;Lee, 2021;Stroud, 2010Stroud, , 2011Stroud, , 2014.…”

“…One of the largest reasons why society seem to treat chefs as celebratory members of the tourism workforce is the idea of chef as artists. Tourism and gastronomy researchers seem to share a general consensus agreeing that culinary professionals and aesthetics share an irrefutable bond (Hegarty & O'Mahony, 2001;Lee et al, 2020;Lee, 2021;Stierand & Lynch, 2008). Chefs are oft-likened to artists, in such that their culinary skills are paralleled to artisanal craftsmanship, their intelligence to artistic creativity, and their food creations to works of art.…”

“…Perhaps a larger concern is how existing studies favor the consumer's viewpoint on culinary aesthetics over the creative lens of the culinary producer (e.g., Horng & Hsu, 2020;Leong et al, 2020). Such viewpoints undermine the culinary producer's aesthetic processes in rendering the culinary artwork-processes that bring the artistic product to life (Lee, 2021;Lee et al, 2020). In doing so, one dangerously splits the intimate link between the creator from his/her creations while also disconnecting the creator from his/her audience, scattering the creator/creation/audience relations into isolated segments and domains.…”

What influences company attachment and job performance in the COVID-19 era?: Airline versus hotel employees

“…Hospitality and tourism employees can anticipate harm to their well-being if they lose their job under COVID-19. Given that a secure and stable form of work is central to one's social and occupational identity ( Lee, 2021 ; Sidoti, 2015 ), it is likely that the pandemic has complicated and caused such employees' form of work to become highly precarious and insecure. Such a stress is likely to cause employees to project negative responses toward life, work, job performance and attachment to their company, which leads to the conceptual development and hypothesis formation of the current paper.…”

“…Drawing from the theoretical premises of the transactional theory of stress ( Folkman & Lazarus, 1985 ; Lazarus and Folkman, 1984 , Lazarus and Folkman, 1987 ), this study conceptualizes the pandemic as an environmental stressor causing employees to (re)evaluate their perceived job insecurity. Given that a secure and stable form of work is central to one's social and occupational identity ( Lee, 2021 ; Sidoti, 2015 ), the pandemic is likely to have detrimental impacts on perceived job stability, which could reduce employees' overall life satisfaction and well-being ( Bufquin et al, 2021 ; Carnevale & Hatak, 2020 ; Gössling et al, 2021; Standing, 2021 ; Zhang et al, 2021 ). Extant studies on employee behavior have indicated the importance of perception of job insecurity as a determinant of life satisfaction and well-being both prior to the pandemic ( Böckerman et al, 2011 ; Griep et al, 2021 ; Van Zyl et al, 2013 ) and during the pandemic ( Bufquin et al, 2021 ; Wong et al, 2021 ).…”