From Home Kitchen to Hostel Restaurant: Changes of Mother Tian's Cooking Skills in Rural Areas in Taiwan

Hung-Chen Chang；Wei-Shun Chang

rural women ； Mother Tian ； technical change ； knowledge construction

嶺東學報

47期（2020 / 12 / 01）

145 - 159

英文

Since 2003, the Council of Agriculture, Executive Yuan has promoted a business plan in which rural women were encouraged to provide Mother Tian catering services. On the basis of rural women's traditional cooking skills, the Council of Agriculture provided courses and training about food nutrition, creative cooking, and marketing, thus hoping to develop local pastoral cuisine and rural tourism. By providing Mother Tian catering services, rural women transformed home cooking into pastoral cuisine to offer tourists a rural tourism experience. Their kitchens became productive areas of leisure agriculture. And then the tourists, experts from Executive Yuan, these rural women and their family members thus form an actor-network. In this study, through observation and dialogues with Mother Tian participants, we analyzed the food experience and investigated the changes in the meaning of Mother Tian participants' cooking skills from home kitchens to hostel restaurants.

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