Concept Mapping Relationship Gastronomy and Economy

Question: Discuss about the Concept Mapping Relationship for Gastronomy and Economy. Answer: Introduction: A concept mapping relationship between Gastronomy and economy. Having a good meal is highly dependent on the knowledge of the caterer or the chef preparing the meal, the arrow from the knowledge circle to gastronomy. For education to take place or realization of gastronomy, families or institutions should be empowered economically, education should be affordable. The arrow between the two shows the relationship between education in gastronomy and a supporting economy (Gradstein and Meier, 2006). Good eating habits depend on supply of food ingredients as depicted in the concept map above, for supply of food to take place a nation economy should provide infrastructure for delivery. Most families or institution that practice gastronomy are considered to be high ranking and affluent in the society, the arrow pointing directly to the gastronomy rectangle (Gillespie and Cousins, 2001). For people to live good lives whereby they can afford good eating habits, the nation should distribute income evenly by providing jobs and opportunities to earn a living (Altman, 2013). The media shapes the opinion of foods through what is broadcasted across a nation, media is capable of reaching out to masses at a time, an economy has a responsibility of making the media equipment available and also monitoring media to ensure right gastronomy in programming. The arrow from a media circle shows the impact of media on gastronomy and in the economy rectangle there is an arrow that shows the economic role of providing media equipment and monitor right programming as well as integration between international channels and local channels. (De Solier, 2013). For beverage products that are healthy like quality wines, to be available in the market the economy should reduce the taxation to international business, an arrow from taxation circle to the economy circle, as a result of reduce taxes, cost of beverages will go down and thus gastronomy is achieved. Realization of gastronomy happens when there are tourism guides in a nation, guiding people through internet and publication on where to find certain foods; the arrow from tourism guide to gastronomy rectangle in the concept map above. The economy has a role to fund marketing of tourism activity as depicted by the arrow from economy circle to the marketing circle (Gillespie and Cousins, 2001). An economy that provides international partnerships, through trade and education, for instance through scholarship programs to study in other countries provides an opportunity for its citizens to study about healthy meal courses and beverage production. As depicted in the concept above exchange programs can happen where there are good international relations, it is the duty of governments and economy, to provide the same through international relations, evidenced by the arrow from international relations to exchange programs. An economy too provides a ground for exchange of products such as foods and beverages in exhibition centers. A good portray of gastronomy will be displayed during those moments. For the economy to provide all above recommendations, there is a direct relationship with gastronomy, people need to eat well to have energy in making the whole mapping concept a reality. References Gillespie, C. and Cousins, J.A., 2001.European gastronomy into the 21st century. Routledge. Gradstein, M., Justman, M. and Meier, V., 2006. The Political Economy of Education: Implications for Growth and Inequality.ILR Review,59(2), p.84. Altman, M., 2013.Economic growth and the high wage Economy: Choices, Constraints and opportunities in the Market economy(Vol. 158). Routledge. De Solier, I., 2013.Food and the self: Consumption, production and material culture. AC Black.