Star Chefs and the Table: From Restaurant to Home-Based Culinary Experiences

ABSTRACT

Celebrity chefs have played a huge social and cultural role during the last decades and they are often compared to rock stars. They perform own restaurant-destinations where a unique experience is showcased. Also, star chefs have increased their presence into daily life of people – thanks to media and because of the use of their products and dishes. Particularly, this research note focuses on food celebrities’ products available at a local supermarket in New York City. The piece aims to show the potential of this topic since this approach to celebrity allows people – and tourists also – to consume – buy, cook, and eat – like chefs while at home kitchens, and consequently, perform their own starred culinary experience.

KEYWORDS:

• Cuisine
• food media
• food tourism
• product
• star chef

Acknowledgments

This research note was made possible thanks to the financial support of Aristos Campus Mundus 2015 (ACM 2015) – Campus of International Excellence, which allowed the author to carry out a research stay at Fordham University.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Aristos Campus Mundus 2015 (ACM 2015) – Campus of International Excellence.