The Efficient Cook: The Upper Lakes & St. Lawrence Transportation Company’s Cookery Manual
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Abstract
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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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot 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.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
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.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
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