Journal article
De Gustibus Disputandum: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Taste in the Rhetorical Genre of the Restaurant Review
Journal of agricultural & environmental ethics, v 27(6), pp 895-907
Dec 2014
Abstract
Contemporary professional restaurant reviews have consequences beyond the dinner plate. They now face challenges from the democratizing efforts of blogs and crowd-sourced reviews. Thus an analysis seems appropriate for determining how they are written and what might be lost should they be replaced. Restaurant reviews are presumed to be a species of art and literary criticism and as such have evolved as a rhetorical genre. Through genre analysis we inductively construct the form of the professional restaurant review and then apply it deductively to recent reviews to discover any substantive and stylistic differences that have arisen in the evolution of this genre of writing. We conclude with a critique of this genre that reveals ethical implications for the uses of metaphors in professional restaurant reviews.
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- Title
- De Gustibus Disputandum: The Aesthetics and Ethics of Taste in the Rhetorical Genre of the Restaurant Review
- Creators
- Lawrence Souder - College of Arts and Sciences Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104 USAEdward Bottone - Hospitality Management, Culinary Arts, and Food Science Drexel University 3141 Chestnut Street Philadelphia PA 19104 USA
- Publication Details
- Journal of agricultural & environmental ethics, v 27(6), pp 895-907
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands; Dordrecht
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Communication
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000345641600002
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-84914118636
- Other Identifier
- 991014878504104721
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- Web of Science research areas
- Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
- Environmental Sciences
- Ethics
- History & Philosophy Of Science