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Mind Map #6 - Coggle Diagram
Mind Map #6
Reading #12 - La Révolution du Fromage
Quebec Culture
Patrimoine Gastronomique
Which means
Gastronomical heritage rooted in patriotism
A devotion to the local product.
Cultural patriotism through food with its national identity through consumption
Includes
Understanding of terroir
Which is
The notion that the taste of food is affected from
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Has been ongoing for centuries
First starting with
Early settlers with French food culture being ill equipped to feed themselves through the Winter
They received help from First Nations who shared their knowledge of Indigenous crops and wild foods
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Cheese Cultures
Quebec has a long history of making cheese
Way back when
settlers were looking for ways to preserve milk
Cheese was probably one of the first foods made in Quebec
The earliest cheese making records are from 1643,
Cheese making quickly became part of life
However
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Industrial vs. Artisanal Cheeses
Industrial cheese making is mechanized
Artisanal cheese is prepared in small batches by hand
Something qualitatively different between homemade and store made
Factory made cheese tends to always have the same colour/texture
Every batch of homemade cheese is different, the outcome can be unexpected
Fun Fact! My grandfather owns a dairy farm, and back when the farm was older, my grandmother used to make homemade cheeses from the milk in the farm (Ella)
The cheese maker will always be making improvemnets to the taste
Which is where
Customers played an important role in the Cheese Revolution
They helped refine the recipes, which unintentionally strengthened a local food system
Reading #11- Local food for millions
Global food systems
Many actors involved
Farmers
very stressful/lots of work involved
Sleep for very few hours
Harvesting the day before for the next day at the terminal
usually allows the highest revenue for the yield
Opportunity to become players in the urban food chain
Work to catch up for time missed away from the field
Chain buyers
Food company's sales representative
Complex supply chain
Crosses many borders
Military style command and control operation
just-in-time replenishment
Quick redistribution of food
warehouse
Distribution centre
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Which created an disatisfaction for the consumers who didn't like supermarkets long-distance foods
Creation of Local Food Plus
Big food corporations started stocking more Canadian food
Chefs, grocers and middlemen
Ontario Food Terminal
Provides a space for local farmers to make good sales
Supports a local food system
Creates a space for community (all the farmers know each other)
Provides an uninterrupted supply of affordable fresh foods to the city of Toronto
Created from a need for a modern infrastructure to replace the decades old farmers market
Creates lots of waste
Anthesis to local food system
Keep costs down
Local food systems
Local Food Plus
Trying to create new localized supply chains that link farmers to the population
farm to school
Gives way for farm to hospital
Can help shift the industries focus to supporting local
If a good amount of our food is from a local source
Importing some foods might be okay
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Involves as many people as possible in the local food system
more stress on the farmer
To reduce the stress we need to detach the farmers income from the price of food
Which means we need to start paying farmers independantly from their yield
Not everyone has the means to buy local and sustainable foods
Logo that helps people indentify local and sustainable products
harder to establish in urban areas as there is a lack of arable land
Ciities were built on fertile soil and now most of it is paved over
Populations are demanding fresh local foods in cities
Which means a return of farmers markets of old and of new
They are also a way to introduce future farmers to the world of farming
Two food regimes
Linked to the expansion of the british empire
Caracterised by cheap food imported from the colonies
Like cheddar from Quebec which changed Quebec's method of producing cheese
Post second world war
Mass production of foods by large corporations for mass consumption