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Record W1589693685

Toronto Blueberry Buns: History, Community, Memory

2003· article· en· W1589693685 on OpenAlexaffabout
Jillian Gould

Bibliographic record

VenueMaterial Culture Review / Revue de la culture matérielle · 2003
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicCulinary Culture and Tourism
Canadian institutionsMemorial University of Newfoundland
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHumanitiesArtCollective memoryJudaismEthnologySociologyPolitical scienceHistoryLaw
DOInot available

Abstract

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Unlike other Jewish memory foods such as homemade gefilte fish or matzoh ball soup, blueberry buns are virtually unknown to Jews living outside of Toronto. Yet these sweet, yeasty baked goods are a well-loved treat that trigger memorial narratives for those who remember eating them in downtown Toronto between the 1930s and the 1950s. For those who grew up during that era, blueberry buns represent childhood, summertime and visits with friends and family. This paper will explore the cultural significance of blueberry buns, as well as attempt to solve several mysteries that surround this Toronto treat: where did the recipe come from? Why did the buns become so popular? And finally, why have these treats remained solely within the boundaries of Toronto? Resume Contrairement a d'autres mets appartenant a la memoire collective juive, comme le poisson gefilte ou la soupe aux boulettes de pain azyme maison, les brioches aux bleuets sont pratiquement inconnues de la communaute juive a l'exterieur de Toronto. Ces pâtisseries au levain sont une gâterie appreciee qui declenche un flot de souvenirs chez ceux qui se rappellent en avoir mange au centre de Toronto dans les annees 1930,1940 et 1950. Pour tous ceux qui ont grandi a cette epoque, les brioches aux bleuets representent l'enfance, l'ete et les visites aux amis et a la famille. Cet article etudie la signification culturelle des brioches aux bleuets et tente de lever quelques-uns des mysteres entourant cette gâterie propre a Toronto : la provenance de sa recette, le secret de sa popularite et la raison pour laquelle elle est circonscrite a Toronto.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.586
Threshold uncertainty score0.991

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0100.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.019
GPT teacher head0.230
Teacher spread0.211 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreOther

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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