Death of the secret recipe: “Open source cooking” and field organization in the culinary arts.
Knowledge sharing is an important but understudied aspect of the formation and organization of creative fields. To better understand the relationship between knowledge sharing and field organization, I examine a small but influential movement within the culinary arts known as “modernist cuisine.” Th...
| Publicado en: | Poetics Vol. 61; pp. 53 - 67 |
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Elsevier B.V.
Apr2017
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