Unwrapping The Northern Sea cheese - Enacting place in the Danish dairy food sector

The Nordic foodscape has changed radically over the last decade. In Scandinavia there is massive focus on a Nordic gourmet food evolution in general and in Denmark specifically also a cheese revolution. Notions of terroir and place specific foodstuffs are rapidly gaining interest in the Nordic countries. In the fall of 2008 Thise Mejeri won an annual Danish gourmet dairy prize with their speciality cheese ‘Vesterhavsost’. The judges noted that: “The cheese has character, and it has the “terroir” that we search for. It means that it is characterized by the origin of the milk, as well as the area of production and maturing. It has a good story” . The Vesterhavsost (Eng. ‘The Northern Sea cheese’) was thus inscribed in an (it seems) ever-growing trend towards food related site-specificity

Enacting New Nordic terroir as rootless American innovation or soiled European tradition?

The governing of food quality and food security is often intertwined with regional development and the notion of terroir pivotal - not least when considering cheese production. Terroir, however, is primarily understood in a strictly European sense, accentuating soil and tradition. Drawing on readings of ‘dairy produce strategies’ and deploying a possible world induced STS attitude, a crude model for differentiating American and European enactments of terroir is investigated in this paper. I claim that in the US, geographical claims are ‘uprooted’ and generally highlight alethic modalities – centerstaging individual competence and innovation. Geographical claims in EU, on the other hand, steers towards communal practices and deontic modalities grounded in soil and tradition. Both food systems make use of sustainable claims, but render their authority from different institutions of legitimacy. In Europe the concept of collective regional enterprises or consortiums flourishes. In the US collective patrimony is less propagated, whereas privately owned farms and production facilities secure personal recognition through intellectual property

On possible `cosmic ray cocoons' of relativistic jets

We consider effects on an (ultra-) relativistic jet and its ambient medium caused by high energy cosmic rays accelerated at the jet side boundary. As illustrated by simple models, during the acceleration process a flat cosmic ray distribution can be created, with gyroradia for highest particles' energies reaching the scales comparable to the jet radius or the energy density comparable to the ambient medium pressure. In the case of efficient radiative losses a high energy bump in the spectrum can dominate the cosmic ray pressure. In extreme cases the cosmic rays are able to push the ambient medium off, providing a `cosmic ray cocoon' separating the jet from the surrounding medium. The considered cosmic rays provide an additional jet breaking force and lead to a number of consequences for the jet structure and its radiative output. In particular the involved dynamic and acceleration time scales are in the range observed in variable AGNs.Comment: LaTeX (7 pages, 3 figures, uses mn.sty); MNRAS, accepte