Female Cook Research Articles

Mating assortment and the strength of sexual selection in a polyandrous population of Cook Strait giant weta

AbstractPolyandry can profoundly affect the strength of pre-copulatory sexual selection acting on males because each additional mate acquired by a female means that, all else being equal, a male’s paternity share declines. However, accruing additional mates could benefit male fitness if males with greater mating success also tend to have less promiscuous females as partners. If this is indeed the case, then males should experience strong sexual selection to acquire more mates. We tested these predictions by collecting detailed mating data on male and female Cook Strait giant weta (Deinacrida rugosa) in the wild via daily radio tracking. Our sexual network-based approach indeed revealed that the most polygynous male D. rugosa mated the least polyandrous females. This finding therefore suggests that the most successful males likely face lower intensities of sperm competition and so should be selected to accrue more mates. Further, our selection analysis revealed significant pre-copulatory sexual selection on males with those having relatively smaller body size, lighter body mass, and longer legs accruing more mates than otherwise. Thus, it appears that both pre- and post-copulatory episodes of sexual selection reinforce the same male phenotype.

Traditional female cook’s role at tourist inflow traditional markets in Bogotá

What is the role of female traditional cooks as carriers of culinary knowledge for tourism development in some of the food markets in Bogota? This research analyses the role of the female cook as a carrier of culinary knowledge, determines contributions to gastronomic heritage that allows tourism development and generates resources for tourism use around local gastronomic heritage. Thus, interviews to traditional female cooks were conducted face to face in order to analyse the knowledge they have about Colombian Cuisine, and where they obtain this knowledge from, as well as their perception on gender division of labour on their kitchens. About methodology, a qualitative approach was used, from the action-participation research method with a process that allows a collective learning of their reality.
 As a result, traditional cooks are bearers of intangible cultural heritage and are representatives of Colombian cultural identity; most of their culinary knowledge has been obtained in empirical processes due to family tradition or work experience. In conclusion, their role is to keep the recipes intact and teach them to other generations to maintain cultural heritage as living heritage in the gastronomic tourism chain.

Cooking up Hope: Minoritized White Women and their Hope for Equality in Miami's Latinx Dominated Restaurant Industry1

AbstractIn Miami, the US racial category of “white” is being re‐defined to include light skinned Latinx immigrants. In the process, US‐born white Miamians find themselves displaced from the top of Miami's social hierarchy as light skinned Latinx immigrants take over these social positions. This racialized Latinx social re‐positioning is particularly visible in Miami's restaurant industry where the developing social hierarchy leaves white women restaurant workers juggling their white privilege and their traditional gendered roles, with this playing out most profoundly amongst those who occupy “back of house,” or kitchen jobs, where they become both racial and gender minorities.Through the case study of Geena, a white female cook, I will explore the extent to which the precarity of privilege motivates white women to be audacious actors of resistance in a racialized, hetero‐patriarchal restaurant industry. Using an intersectional framework to analyze Geena's lived experiences, this paper focuses specifically on the degree to which her ideas of hope are shaped by class, language, ableism, and sexual orientation. As I will demonstrate through Geena's case study, ideas of hope allow white women to reposition themselves as white saviors, effectively reasserting and reifying whiteness as a superior social category.

Coloniality on a Virtual Plate: Contemporary Mexican Foodways as (Counter)Visuality

AbstractThis article seeks to reframe the stakes of current discourses at the intersection of Mexican cooking and modernist gastronomy. Through a decolonial approach to gender and visuality, (counter)visuality, this article demonstrates how and to what extent ‘modern’ and ‘traditional’ Mexican cookery co‐constitute and valorise one another, and how gendered expressions of culinary stewardship have become underscored by the persistent imaginary of the ‘cocinera tradicional’ [traditional female cook]. The article centres on the mutual dependency of two case studies: renowned Mexican chef Enrique Olvera and the popular YouTube channel host of ‘De mi rancho a tu cocina’, Doña Ángela.

Meat cookery for the 18th century female household cook: An unrecognized influence of Menon's La Cuisiniere Bourgeoise (1746)

In mid-18th Century France, the cooking and serving of meat dishes had been in decline for many years. Household cooks were invariably male and were experienced professionals serving those who could afford their expertise. In 1746, Menon, a prolific food writer, published a cook-book, “La Cuisiniere Bourgeiose”, which was specifically written for the female cook, What has not been noticed or addressed by previous authors, is the fact that the majority of recipes in this book are devoted to the cooking of meat and poultry. Within a few years of publication of the first edition, all subsequent editions carried this emphasis on meat cookery on the title pages. The book went though multiple editions attesting to its relevance and usefulness to the cooks to which it was directed. It is argued that this publication may have had a substantial influence on household meat cookery of the time.

‘Mon callalou’: Maryse Condé writing herself as female cook

ABSTRACT This article analyzes two works by Maryse Condé, Victoire: les saveurs et les mots (2006) and Mets et merveilles (2015), spotlighting the figure of the female cook. It proposes a rereading of Victoire, the fictionalized biography of Condé’s grandmother, in light of the more recent autobiographical work Mets et merveilles in which Condé refers to her penchant for cooking as a crime of ‘lèse-majesté’ against her profession as a writer. Victoire stands out in Condé’s fiction for its emphasis on cooking and food. In Mets et merveilles Condé uses the theme of cooking as a tactic to encourage readers to return to Victoire in order to cement her legacy as an author, enabled by her established practice of rusing with her readers and supported by the recent growth of academic food studies as a scholarly discipline. Rereading Victoire in light of Mets et merveilles presents Maryse Condé as a writer-cook anchored in Guadeloupe, post-nomadic, proud of her cooking but still proudly intellectual, creating a space for Caribbean food writing and for her unique culinary mixtures.

Being a Female Cook in Mexico: an Approach to the Configuration of the Occupational Identities of Women in Mexican Kitchens at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century

Throughout the history of Mexico, traditional cuisine has been associated with women. Nowadays, current economic conditions have forced more women to extrapolate the domestic culinary knowledge to public kitchens. In addition, the rise and popularisation of culinary education has allowed the recruitment of more women in extra-domestic kitchens. While preparing food, these women share the way they see the world in the meanings they confer to the culinary work. These similarities make these women be perceived as social actors characterised by shared values, attitudes and capabilities. This article analyses the social dynamics that take place in the configuration of the occupational identities of women in Mexican public kitchens of the twenty-first century.

Constructing the culinary consumer: transformative and reflective processes in Italian cookbooks

This paper explores how culinary texts operate in both performative and transformative senses in relation to wider societal norms of gender and cultural capital. As such, the paper explores changes to the way in which the culinary consumer is presented in British Italian cookbooks from 1954 to 2005. Across the period, we see a shift in the gendered representation of the culinary subject, from a housewife in the period 1954–1974, to a working mother from 1975 to 1986, and most recently as male or female cook from 1987 to 2005. We also see shifts in representation of cultural capital in these same periods from learning new cooking skills, to adapting existing cooking skills to displaying skills in shopping and product selection. In charting these changing discourses, we find that whilst reflecting wider culinary culture, these cookbooks also act in a transformative sense to promote (and indeed require) specific enactments of gender and cultural capital.

Perception of female population health hazards associated with indoor air pollution in Karachi

This study identified health hazards associated with indoor air pollution (IAP) in Karachi. The main purpose of the paper was to examine the extent to which female domestic cook experience health threats related with cooking environment, and to understand their perceptions of the link between IAP exposure and poor health outcomes. One hundred female domestic cook in Karachi City, Pakistan, were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire interview method; educational level, oven and fuel types were used as proxy determinants of class, based on educational level, respondents were categorized into three classes: illiterate, graduate and above, and in-between (from level one to level 12). It was found that the higher the educational level the respondents had, the more likely they were to be aware of health effects associated with IAP. The author drew a conclusion that respondents with minimum levels of education, using wood fired mud-ovens, were more likely to be exposed to IAP and, as a consequence, had greater health risks than other women.

“Our Domestic Trials with Freedmen and Others”: A White South Carolinian's Diary of African-American “Exhibitions of Freedom,” 1865–80

In October 1865, Jacob Schirmer returned to Charleston, South Carolina, after more than three years refuge from the Civil War in the village of Edge-field, South Carolina. Schirmer had brought his slaves with him to Edgefield, but they did not return to Charleston with him, choosing instead to “realize their Freedom” (diary entry for October 28, 1865). Schirmer, a German American, kept a regular diary from 1826 until his death in 1880. Following the Civil War, though, he also commenced a separate journal — “Our Domestic Trials with Freedmen and Others” — in which he recorded his dealings with domestic workers in the free labor system. He hired three domestic servants: a female cook and washer, a male butler, and a male gardener. For the next twenty-five years, Schirmer struggled with the transition from slavery to freedom. “Our Domestic Trials” documents not only Schirmer's reaction to the revolutionary social changes of the era but also offers a telling picture of the ways in which African Americans responded to their newfound freedom and their determination to maintain that freedom.Jacob Schirmer was born in 1803 into a well-known German-American family in Charleston. Schirmer's grandfather was Jacob Sass, a reputable Charleston cabinetmaker. Schirmer operated a successful coopering (barrel making) business, and he owned eight buildings in Charleston. He served as president of the Corporation of St. John's Lutheran Church and as treasurer of the German Friendly Society. It does not appear that Schirmer was active in politics, nor was he a member of the German rifle clubs in Charleston (probably because they were formed by German immigrants in the 1850s).

Hypersensitivity to carrot associated with specific IgE to grass and tree pollens

This study deals with a 34-year-old female cook with no previous history of atopy, who was studied because of allergic rhinoconjunctivitis and contact urticaria in both hands associated with severe itching when she handled raw carrot. The patient had had anaphylactic episodes after accidental ingestion of raw carrots, but she tolerated cooked carrots. Skin prick tests with carrot, celery, and olive, and birch, grass, and mugwort pollens were positive. Total IgE was 411 UI/ml. Specific IgE to olive, grass, and weed pollens were 10.92, 6.17, and 2.4 AU/ml, respectively. The histamine release test was positive for carrot, celery, celeriac, and olive pollen up to a dilution of 1/106. Immunoblot of raw carrot showed a single IgE-binding 18-kDa band. IgE reactivity for raw carrot immunoblot was completely inhibited by carrot and by celery, but not by olive or grass pollens. Specific IgE to olive pollen was not inhibited by carrot. The existence of monosensitization to an 18-kDa protein in carrot and specific IgE to olive pollen has not been reported in the celery-carrot-mugwort-spice syndrome.

手三角骨と対側手舟状骨に無腐性壊死を併発した一例

Although avascular necrosis after fracture of the scaphoid is common, it rarely develops without apparent trauma. However avascular necrosis of the triangular bone is extremely rare. It is there fore extremely rare to find the former condition on one side with the latter on the other, and this has not been reported previously in any literature.This paper presents one case of idiopathic avascular necrosis of the triangular and of the scaphoid.A 42-year-old female cook complained of motion pain in her right wrist since her restaurant opened. One year later motion pain in her left wrist was added. Radiographs showed ulnar plus variant; 5mm at right and 4mm at left, and showed cysts in the triangular bone and scaphoid. She was treated conservatively, and her complaints decreased. MRI was taken three times over six months, and it was shown that the triangular developed a tendency to heal but the scaphoid tended to become worse. In following conservative treatment MRI examination is useful.

Hallopeau's acrodermatitis treated with cyclosporin A-a case report

Cyclosporin A (CyA) has recently been introduced successfully for the treatment of the pustular forms of psoriasis. We treated a 57-year-old female cook who had been suffering from Hallopeau's acrodermatitis continue for 12 years. She came under our care for a marked worsening of the clinical picture of the third finger of the right hand. We treated her with CyA at an initial dose of 4 mg/kg per day. After two months of therapy the finger had completely healed. No side-effects were noted, confirming the efficacy and safety of cyclosporin A in the treatment of acrodermatitis continue at low dose.

Anaphylaxis caused by banana

An anaphylactic reaction following ingestion of banana occurred in a 32-year-old female cook. The sensitization to banana occurred simultaneously with the development of occupational asthma caused by grain flour. The patient was sensitized to a wide range of airborne and ingestible proteins but not to rubber latex.

A report of a case of Klebsiella pneumoniae arthritis and a review of extrapulmonary Klebiella infections.

Case Studies1 August 1962A Report of a Case of Klebsiella Pneumoniae Arthritis and a Review of Extrapulmonary Klebsiella InfectionsRICHARD G. WEBER, M.D., BURNESS F. ANSELL JR., M.D.RICHARD G. WEBER, M.D.Search for more papers by this author, BURNESS F. ANSELL JR., M.D.Search for more papers by this authorAuthor, Article, and Disclosure Informationhttps://doi.org/10.7326/0003-4819-57-2-281 SectionsAboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissions ShareFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail ExcerptThis report presents a most unusual manifestation of klebsiella pneumoniae infection, namely, purulent arthritis, and summarizes briefly the literature on klebsiella infections in general. To our knowledge, only one other case of klebsiella pneumoniae arthritis has been reported previously.CASE REPORTA 65-year-old white female cook was admitted to the medical service of the Cincinnati General Hospital on July 4, 1961, with a 2-day history of pain, swelling, redness, and heat in her left wrist. Symptoms had become progressively more severe until admission, at which time she could neither move the wrist nor bear to have it touched. There was...