Kitchens: The Culture of Restaurant Work by Gary Alan Fine (English) Paperback B

Description: Kitchens by Gary Alan Fine Offering a portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, this book presents their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Kitchens takes us into the robust, overheated, backstage world of the contemporary restaurant. In this rich, often surprising portrait of the real lives of kitchen workers, Gary Alan Fine brings their experiences, challenges, and satisfactions to colorful life. A new preface updates this riveting exploration of how restaurants actually work, both individually and as part of a larger culinary culture. Back Cover This book contains an expanded version of three series of lectures delivered by the authors at the CRM in July 2009. The theory of optimization, understood in a broad sense, is the basis of modern applied mathematics, covering a large spectrum of topics from theoretical considerations (structure, stability) to applied operational research and engineering applications. The compiled material of this book puts on display this versatility, by exhibiting the three parallel and complementary components of optimization: theory, algorithms, and practical problems. The first part is a self-contained course on the general moment problem and its relations with semidefinite programming. The second part is dedicated to the problem of determination of Nash equilibria from an algorithmic viewpoint. The last part presents congestion models for traffic networks and develops modern optimization techniques for finding traffic equilibria based on stochastic optimization and game theory. Flap "From the raw to the cooked, Kitchens takes us inside the fascinating world of restaurant work. But be prepared. Abandon preconceptions all ye who enter, for heres an original and important peek into the patois, the pecking order, the profits, and the people who produce what we eat when we eat out. . . . A real by-the-book example of superior occupational sociology, as it was meant to be."--Rob Faulkner, University of Massachusetts "A carefully researched, brilliantly analyzed and elegantly described study of a major American industry. His negotiated order and combined interactional-structural approach is a model for sociological industries and organizations."--Anselm Strauss, University of California, San Francisco Author Biography Gary Alan Fine is John Evans Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. Table of Contents Preface to the 2009 Edition Preface to the First Edition Introduction Chapter 1. Living the Kitchen Life Chapter 2. CooksTime:Temporal Demands and the Experience of Work Chapter 3. The Kitchen as Place and Space Chapter 4· The Commonwealth of Cuisine Chapter 5· The Economical Cook:Organization as Business Chapter 6. Aesthetic Constraints Chapter 7· The Aesthetics of Kitchen Discourse Chapter 8. The Organization and Aesthetics of Culinary Life Appendix. Ethnography in the Kitchen:Issues and Cases Notes References Index Review "Oozes with first-hand accounts of pranks and mishaps... Fines book entertains as it enlightens." North By Northwestern Review Quote "Oozes with first-hand accounts of pranks and mishaps. . . . Fines book entertains as it enlightens."-- North By Northwestern Details ISBN0520257928 Author Gary Alan Fine Short Title KITCHENS UPDATED/E Publisher University of California Press Edition Description Updated Language English ISBN-10 0520257928 ISBN-13 9780520257924 Media Book Format Paperback Year 2008 Edition 2nd Imprint University of California Press Subtitle The Culture of Restaurant Work Country of Publication United States Replaces 9780520200784 Illustrations col. Illustrations Place of Publication Berkerley Residence IL, US Affiliation Northwestern University Northwestern University, USA Northwestern Univ DOI 10.1604/9780520257924 UK Release Date 2008-12-02 AU Release Date 2008-12-02 NZ Release Date 2008-12-02 US Release Date 2008-12-02 Pages 328 Publication Date 2008-12-02 DEWEY 305.9642 Audience Undergraduate We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159674199;

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