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Record W4409730205 · doi:10.25071/2561-5467.1313

The Efficient Cook: The Upper Lakes & St. Lawrence Transportation Company’s Cookery Manual

2025· article· en· W4409730205 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Thomas Malcomson

Bibliographic record

VenueThe Northern Mariner / Le marin du nord · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldBusiness, Management and Accounting
TopicAmerican History and Culture
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOperations researchOperations managementBusinessEngineering

Abstract

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Research into the preparation and cooking of food aboard lake freighters is wanting. This article explores the Cookery Manual created for the ships’ cooks in the Upper Lakes and St. Lawrence Transportation Company, in the late 1940s. The manual’s goal was to provide nutritious, tasty meals contributing to the physical and mental health, contentment and efficiency of the company’s crews. The manual is described and four potential sources of inspiration for such a resource are considered. The potential sources include, the Canadian Government nutrition program at the end of the Depression and through World War II; the navy cookbooks in use during the war; cookbooks for the land based cook; and the labour/management relations after the war. All four likely contributed to the Cookery Manual’s development. Much remains to be discovered about food and cooking aboard ships. La recherche sur la préparation et la cuisson des aliments à bord des cargos lacustres font défaut. Cet article explore le manuel de cuisine créé à la fin des années 1940 pour les cuisiniers des navires Upper Lakes et la compagnie de Transportation du St-Laurent. L’objectif du manuel était de fournir des repas nutritifs et savoureux contribuant à la santé physique et mentale, au contentement et à l’efficacité des équipages de l’entreprise. Le manuel est décrit et quatre sources potentielles d’inspiration pour une telle ressource sont considérées. Les sources potentielles comprennent le programme de nutrition du gouvernement canadien à la fin de la Dépression et pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale; les livres de cuisine de la marine utilisés pendant la guerre; livres de cuisine pour le cuisinier terrestre; et les relations patronales-syndicales après la guerre. Tous les quatre ont probablement contribué à l’élaboration du manuel de cuisine. Il reste encore beaucoup à découvrir sur l’alimentation et la cuisine à bord des navires.

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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 categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.764
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.008
GPT teacher head0.205
Teacher spread0.196 · 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
GenreEmpirical

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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