310 research outputs found

    A neural network system for transformation of regional cuisine style

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    We propose a novel system which can transform a recipe into any selected regional style (e.g., Japanese, Mediterranean, or Italian). This system has two characteristics. First the system can identify the degree of regional cuisine style mixture of any selected recipe and visualize such regional cuisine style mixtures using barycentric Newton diagrams. Second, the system can suggest ingredient substitutions through an extended word2vec model, such that a recipe becomes more authentic for any selected regional cuisine style. Drawing on a large number of recipes from Yummly, an example shows how the proposed system can transform a traditional Japanese recipe, Sukiyaki, into French style

    Alternative Ingredient Recommendation: A Co-occurrence and Ingredient Category Importance Based Approach

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    As many people will refer to a recipe when cooking, there are several recipe-sharing websites that include lots of recipes and make recipes easier to access than before. However, there is often the case that we could not get all the ingredients listed on the recipe. Prior research on alternative ingredient substitution has built a recommendation system considering the suitability of a recommended ingredient with the remained ingredients. In this paper, in addition to suitability, we also take the diversity of the ingredient categories and the novelty of new combination of ingredients into account. Besides, we combine suitability with novelty as an index, to see whether our method could help find out a new combination of ingredients that is possibly to be a new dish. Our evaluation results show that our proposed method attains a comparable or even better performance on each perspective

    意外性のあるレシピを推薦するエージェントの提案

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    毎日の食事のレシピを考えることは非常に大変なことである.近年では独自のレシピを自由に書き込むことができる投稿型レシピサイトが多数存在しており,サイト内のレシピ数,ユーザ数は年々増加している.投稿型レシピサイトには,普通とは多少異なる食材を用いた意外性のあるレシピが存在するが,通常の検索機能を使って発見するのは困難である.そこで,本研究では投稿型レシピサイトから意外性のあるレシピを抽出するための推薦エージェントを提案する.このレシピ推薦エージェントはTF-IDFの考えを応用したRF-IIF(Recipe Frequency-Inverse Ingredient Frequency)を利用し,ユーザから指定された料理カテゴリーにおける食材の希少度と一般度から意外度を算出する.次にレシピに出現する食材の意外度からレシピの意外度を算出するが,各レシピの料理カテゴリーを誤判定すると,普通のレシピが意外レシピと誤判断されてしまうため,別カテゴリーのレシピをいかに除外するかが重要である.最後に,レシピ間の類似度を計り類似したレシピを除去することで多様性に富んだ意外性のあるレシピを抽出する.アンケートによる評価を実施し,提案するレシピ推薦エージェントの有用性を示した.Many surprising recipes that have different ingredients from normal recipes exist in user-generated recipe sites. However, we cannot find surprising recipes by using the search function. In this paper, we propose a method of extracting surprising recipes from the user-generated recipe sites. We calculate the surprising value of ingredients and recipes by using RF-IIF. Then, we remove the redundancy of recipes that have high surprising values. Finally, we extract surprising recipes of the dish category specified by the user. In the evaluation experiment, we conducted a questionnaire about each surprising recipe. As a result, we showed the usefulness of our proposed method

    An experimental framework for designing document structure for users' decision making -- An empirical study of recipes

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    Textual documents need to be of good quality to ensure effective asynchronous communication in remote areas, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, defining a preferred document structure (content and arrangement) for improving lay readers' decision-making is challenging. First, the types of useful content for various readers cannot be determined simply by gathering expert knowledge. Second, methodologies to evaluate the document's usefulness from the user's perspective have not been established. This study proposed the experimental framework to identify useful contents of documents by aggregating lay readers' insights. This study used 200 online recipes as research subjects and recruited 1,340 amateur cooks as lay readers. The proposed framework identified six useful contents of recipes. Multi-level modeling then showed that among the six identified contents, suitable ingredients or notes arranged with a subheading at the end of each cooking step significantly increased recipes' usefulness. Our framework contributes to the communication design via documents

    Coming to the Table: Exploring the Narrative of Cafe Reconcile and Learning in the Kitchen

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    In New Orleans, Louisiana, food shapes much of the discourse around cultural history and identity. Residents of this city identify with the historical and cultural significance of the dishes they cook, and as a result foodways as a curriculum emerges as a way to engage individuals in their learning and development. This study is concerned with how students learn in a space where the classroom is not just four walls and rows of desks, but instead is reimagined to also include a kitchen, restaurant, and the context of the local community. Furthermore, this study explores what learning looks like in a space where food and life skills dominate the daily learning activity instead of the national curriculum. Through six months of site observation and10 semi-structured interviews, I explored the experiences of students going through the life-skills and food curriculum offered at my research site, Café Reconcile. Through their narratives, the following themes emerged: (1) students desire to be part of a community that explicitly shows care; (2) students are empowered and generate internal motivation to persist after gaining membership into the learning community; (3) the shape of learning changes from theory to application within a kitchen space; and (4) within this type of space, learning how to navigate cultures of power takes precedence over the food content

    Finding replaceable materials in cooking recipe texts considering characteristic cooking actions

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    If it feeds, it leads : eating, media, identity, and ecofeminist food journalism

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    This project explored contemporary food journalism and placed it in the larger context of American history, asking how such media made eating a matter of public concern. In other words, it asked: how does food journalism invite us to our eating identities and what are the ethical obligations of food journalists? I used Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) to examine three contemporary media outlets, each originating at a different point in food journalism's history: The New York Times Food section, TV Food Network, and Vox Media's Eater. I historically contextualized these outlets and their content, further using them to make a larger critique of the current social order. Incorporating the history of food, media, consumerism, and the political economic institutions of the U.S., I also investigated how the active negotiation of civic/eating/consumer identities transformed into ethically compromised positions of hyperindividualism. This occurred within a context of a neoliberal consensus where market fundamentalism dominates the political conversations of worldmaking. Individuals are now expected to be isolated entrepreneurs, conforming to the needs of 'the market.' I thus argue that food media is neoliberalized and food journalists must match the logic of this worldview or face exclusion from a commercialized attention economy built on surveillance, predictability, and control. Taking the long view, I delineate how the liberalism that created modern journalism transformed into neoliberal media. Keeping residual elements of liberalism's once progressive project, I deconstruct the misguided presuppositions of neo/liberalism and offer a counterhegemonic approach to journalism and food media. Establishing a position of ecofeminist food journalism, I then explore how such media invites new, more caring citizens and better feeds the social and ecological connections necessary for democratic, human, and multi-species flourishing

    Performance Writing, Objects and Millennial Precarity: A co-authored PaR exploration between friends

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    This PhD is co-authored with Chris GreenThis practice-as-research project uses performance writing to understand, illustrate and work through aspects of millennial experience, with a specific interest in precarious housing and labour. For us, experiencing precarity means that fundamental aspects of what is required to experience what Lauren Berlant calls ‘a good life’ (including secure working contracts, renters’ rights, access to leisure time) are not being met. This leads to a feeling of ‘living on the edge’ (Ahmed, 2017: 238), which in turn prevents us from being able to imagine alternatives. This performance writing takes the form of scores, instructions, maps, walking, knitting, zines, and audio recordings. We submit four artworks to be examined alongside the written element of the thesis, which is constructed around their analysis: House Box (2017), Desires for Labour (2019), Chapel Street or Wherever you Are (2021) and Recipe Book (2021). Performance writing is here understood as theorised by academics such as Caroline Bergvall and Ric Allsopp whereby a consideration of text includes visual, physical, aural, and performative elements and there are no fixed boundaries between performance and writing. Instead, there is a ‘continuing and transforming relationship between the two terms’ (Allsopp, 1999: 77). This thesis seeks to develop and offers a more refined definition of performance writing. Our approach to performance writing emphasises embodied action, affect and experience in its production and its encounter. As such, we frame Barthes’ literary theories of readerly and writerly text through the lens of performance studies. We demonstrate through our practice how performance writing undergoes a continuous process of rewriting through its encounter. Particular focus is placed upon the production of performance writing objects, and this is demonstrated through the range of ways that performance writing has been produced. Through this, we argue that performance writing can offer hopeful strategies to reimagine the future through the political potential of friendship. Whilst performance writing might not result in the means to plan for the future, its relationship to imagination may lay the groundwork for this and is presented as a potential. Due to the collaborative nature of this research project, this PhD offers insights into co-authored meaning-making in the performing and visual arts, in addition to establishing the value of performance writing objects within the context of millennial precarit
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