Are we at a turning point in the evolution of gastronomy? Paris: An exemplary case

Sommes-nous à un tournant dans l'évolution de la gastronomie: l'exemple de Paris

Christian Barrère (), Quentin Bonnard () and Véronique Chossat ()
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Christian Barrère: REGARDS - Recherches en Économie Gestion AgroRessources Durabilité Santé- EA 6292 - URCA - Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne - MSH-URCA - Maison des Sciences Humaines de Champagne-Ardenne - URCA - Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Quentin Bonnard: REGARDS - Recherches en Économie Gestion AgroRessources Durabilité Santé- EA 6292 - URCA - Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne - MSH-URCA - Maison des Sciences Humaines de Champagne-Ardenne - URCA - Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne
Véronique Chossat: REGARDS - Recherches en Économie Gestion AgroRessources Durabilité Santé- EA 6292 - URCA - Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne - MSH-URCA - Maison des Sciences Humaines de Champagne-Ardenne - URCA - Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne

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Abstract: Over the past few years, the landscape of top class gastronomy has empirically changed: some celebrity chefs are returning their hard-won awards to instead provide low-cost food whilst others work tirelessly to gain access to the inner circle of international top-class restaurants. Things are changing, but the direction is unclear. To analyse the situation, we took the case of French Parisian gastronomy-because it has been the main model for world gastronomy. Our study of it focuses on the Michelin Guide selection, covering the sixty-year period 1950-2012. We then applied MCA (Multiple Correspondence Analysis) to establish the profiles of the Parisian restaurants and to find out whether these profiles have evolved. This paper shows that a turning point has clearly been reached, and that gastronomic pluralism is on the rise-to the detriment of the hegemony of elitist gastronomy.

Keywords: MCA; segmentation; luxury industries; gastronomy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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Published in Applied Economics, 2014, 46 (12), pp.1409-1419. ⟨10.1080/00036846.2013.875110⟩

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DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2013.875110

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