Artisan food production: What makes food ‘artisan’?
Lingham, Sophia, Hill, Inge and Manning, Louise (2022) Artisan food production: What makes food ‘artisan’? In: Artisan and Handicraft Entrepreneurs: Past, Present, and Future. Contributions to Management Science . Springer, Cham. ISBN eBook ISBN 978-3-030-82303-0 Print ISBN 978-3-030-82302-3
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Abstract
Artisan food is characterised as being made through creativity, passion, traditional methods and with traditional ingredients. John McKenna describes this as the quartet of place, product, passion, and personality of the producer with tradition being implicit rather than explicit in this description. This chapter considers the contemporary framing of artisan food and artisan producers, how the use of the term ‘artisan’ has evolved over time, and the emergent trends within the artisan food sector. The research question arising from these ideas is: Can artisan food be both innovative and traditional at the same time? The chapter discusses three food producers and critically evaluates the extent to which they fit within existing definitions of ‘artisan food’. The term ‘artisan’ can be said to be socially constructed i.e. the meaning is constantly reconstructed as new innovations are adopted and associated with place, product and producer. Artisan food needs to stand out in some contemporary way from more mass produced food, especially as it often has higher costs of production or includes an embedded environmental or social value that the purchaser must be willing to pay for.
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| Keywords: | Artisan food Traditional methods Traditional ingredients Artisans |
| Divisions: | Agriculture, Food and Environment |
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| Date Deposited: | 21 Jun 2021 12:41 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jan 2024 05:30 |
| URI: | https://rau.repository.guildhe.ac.uk/id/eprint/16461 |
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