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Record W7165052975 · doi:10.7202/1125222ar

Foodways as Highways: Using Food as Cultural Escape

2025· article· en· W7165052975 on OpenAlexvenueaboutno aff
Jack Chi

Bibliographic record

VenueCuizine The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldAgricultural and Biological Sciences
TopicCulinary Culture and Tourism
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsFoodwaysQueerGirlImmigrationHeteronormativityCultural assimilation

Abstract

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This digital art piece draws inspiration from my own experiences attempting to navigate the interconnectedness of food, culture, and queerness, as well as two pieces examining immigrant food experiences. Anita Mannur’s “Perfection on a Plate: Readings in the South Asian Transnational Queer Kitchen” relates queerness and food in an analysis of the film Nina’s Heavenly Delights, and Tulasi Srinivas’s "’As Mother Made It': The Cosmopolitan Indian Family, ’Authentic' Food and The Construction of Cultural Utopia” focusses on the unique experiences of the children of immigrants. In this piece, the girl flees heteronormativity in favor of queerness; simultaneously, she flees traditional Chinese foods in favour of Canadian fare. It is representative of the internal conflict experienced by immigrants and children of immigrants as they are torn between cultures, and the intrinsic links between food and culture. The girl strides across the chasm on a path of shattering plates, using food and foodways to deny her Chinese cultural identity. Though she takes this path willingly, she still weeps for the culture she is forced to leave behind. The relationships between culture, food, and queerness are undeniable but complex, and exploring these relationships is a journey unique to each individual. This art piece highlights the way in which food can serve as a cultural escape and attempts to represent my personal experience as the queer, rebellious child of an immigrant.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.995
Threshold uncertainty score0.050

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0110.027
Scholarly communication0.0100.009
Open science0.0010.010
Research integrity0.0020.003
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.002

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 head0.032
GPT teacher head0.249
Teacher spread0.217 · 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
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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Published2025
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