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The Michelin Guide Awards Stars in China: Strategies, Challenges and Opportunities

The Michelin Guide Awards Stars in China: Strategies, Challenges and Opportunities

Lane, Christel

Hardcover

Series: Food and Identity in a Globalising World

Technology & EngineeringGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 3032434785
ISBN13: 9783032434784
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English

This book examines the Michelin Guide's rating activity in mainland China since 2016 and its implications for China's efforts to endow its high-end gastronomy sector with global visibility and prestige. It explores how Michelin has handled the risks involved in rating restaurants within an unfamiliar culinary culture and dining environment, given its limited business networks and cultural understanding of China. The book systematically challenges Michelin's claim that the quality of cuisine can be compared across continents and that awards of stars are therefore comparable. It also investigates whether inspectors' ratings are applied even-handedly across different culinary styles and assesses the consistency of criteria used when rating restaurants, particularly at the three-star level. While focused on China, the book has a global scope, addressing issues of cultural intermediation, organizational sociology, food studies, and international business practices. By examining Michelin's highly consequential claims and standards in an Asian context, it sheds light on an area that remains largely unknown in Western countries.

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