Teaching Basque Gastronomy: From on Location to Online in Pandemic Times

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 117-127
Author(s):  
Marcela Garcés
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Undergraduate Students ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Early Spring ◽  
Northern Spain ◽  
Slow Food ◽  
Educational Methods ◽  
Pace Of Life ◽  
Home Cooking ◽  
Food Movement

In the early spring of 2020, the COVID-19 outbreak obliged us to slow down the pace of life in many ways, altering our well-laid plans. This included canceling a travel course trip I had planned with a group of undergraduate students from Siena College (near Albany, New York) to the Basque Country in Northern Spain for May 2020. In thinking about how to replace the sensory richness of a highly experiential trip, I created a series of online projects that incorporated tenets of the Slow Food movement, mindfulness, and Basque gastronomy in context. Home cooking became a necessary alternative to travel for my students not only to complete their course requirements remotely, but ultimately to mindfully reflect upon valuable culinary experiences and a slower pace of life through both sensory and cognitive educational methods.

Red Ereño: an Ornamental and Construction Limestone of International Significance from the Basque Country (northern Spain)

Geoheritage ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
L. Damas Mollá ◽  
J. A. Uriarte ◽  
A. Zabaleta ◽  
A. Aranburu ◽  
F. García Garmilla ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Basque Country ◽  
Northern Spain

Why are companies still struggling to reach higher continuous improvement maturity levels? Empirical evidence from high performance companies

2015 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 316-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Jurburg ◽  
Elisabeth Viles ◽  
Carmen Jaca ◽  
Martin Tanco
Keyword(s):  
Continuous Improvement ◽  
Measurement System ◽  
High Performance ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Holistic Approach ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Northern Spain ◽  
Content Type ◽  
High Performing

Purpose – Continuous improvement (CI) is regarded as a powerful approach to achieve business excellence. However, the implementation is not simple as it involves managing a considerable amount of tangible and intangible factors throughout the whole organization. The purpose of this paper is to fill the gap by presenting first-hand information about how companies really implement and organize their CI processes. Design/methodology/approach – The study was based on semi-structured interviews in ten high performing companies in the Basque Country, a region in northern Spain well known for its business quality. The objective was to analyze the state of their CI processes, putting special focus on how the organizational structure integrates with the CI processes and what are the characteristics of the corresponding measurement system. Findings – The study shows a lack of company-wide focus on CI, little written evidence of previous improvement activities, unclear improvement process owner, and poor use of adequate measurement systems to monitor CI. Practical implications – Managers should understand that is not enough to guarantee their own commitment and provide the structure, since in order to become learning organization, a different holistic approach towards the CI process must be adopted. Originality/value – While most previous work on this field have focused primarily on how to implement different techniques in order to achieve better productive performance, this study presents empirical research from a more holistic approach, assessing the characteristics affecting CI by considering strategy, structure, and the measurement system.

scholarly journals Terra Madre 2006: Political Theater and Ritual Rhetoric in the Slow Food Movement

2008 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
adrian peace
Keyword(s):  
Political Theater ◽  
The Political ◽  
Slow Food ◽  
Political Spectacle ◽  
The Core ◽  
Global Character ◽  
Secular Rituals ◽  
The Many ◽  
Mega Event ◽  
Food Movement

The biannual mega-event of Terra Madre is now established as the political flagship of the Slow Food movement. It assembles in Turin the leading cosmopolitan figures of this neo-tribal, post modern organization, along with several thousand of its ordinary members, who were drawn in 2006 from the ranks of food producers, cooks and academics. The most significant secular rituals of Terra Madre involve the theatrical celebration of its global character, beginning with the assembly of representatives from some 1600 ““food communities”” distributed throughout the world. Equally important are the many smaller scale activities in which the details of the movement's politics are articulated and embellished, at times in strikingly rhetorical ways. In this paper, which is based on ethnographic research, the theatrical and rhetorical qualities of Terra Madre as a political spectacle are explored in some detail. It is argued, in conclusion, that what is inadvertently exposed are some of the political myths which lie at the core of the Slow Food movement's contemporary philosophy.

scholarly journals Breast-feeding: part of the slow food movement?

2006 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 667-668 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marilyn Tseng
Keyword(s):  
Breast Feeding ◽  
Slow Food ◽  
Food Movement

Seroprevalence of Toxocara infection in middle-class and disadvantaged children in northern Spain (Gipuzkoa, Basque Country)

1996 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 541-543 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gustavo Cilla ◽  
Emilio P�rez-Trallero ◽  
Cristina Guti�rrez ◽  
Carolina Part ◽  
Mar�a Gom�riz
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Basque Country ◽  
Northern Spain ◽  
Disadvantaged Children

Probabilistic correction of RCM precipitation in the Basque Country (Northern Spain)

2013 ◽  
Vol 117 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 317-329 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Monjo ◽  
Guillem Chust ◽  
Vicente Caselles
Keyword(s):  
Basque Country ◽  
Northern Spain

Sectarian Visions of the Economy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Noah Benezra Strote
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Catholic Church ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Stock Exchange ◽  
Early Spring ◽  
Complete Separation ◽  
New York Stock Exchange ◽  
York Stock Exchange ◽  
The Social ◽  
National Emergency

This chapter examines the failure of elites to build consensus on a proper policy response to the onset of worldwide economic depression after the crash of the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929. Economic crisis overwhelmed all other public discussion in the early spring of 1930, when the Social Democratic chancellor Hermann Müller and his cabinet were forced to resign. In this potentially dire situation, Paul von Hindenburg decided to use his constitutional prerogative as president to declare a national emergency. In Hindenburg's eyes, not only had the Müller regime failed to formulate a response to the downturn, but more fundamentally, they had divided the national community, stoking class conflict and alienating the religious communities by advocating a complete separation of church and state. Thus, Hindenburg appointed Heinrich Brüning as chancellor, a policy expert from the country's Center Party, which represents the interests of Germany's Catholic population and was still strongly affiliated with the Catholic Church.

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