Title: "Food and Culture"
ABSTRACT
Food is a central element of humans' life, and food preferences are amongst others manifestations of social, cultural and economic forces that influence the way we view, prepare and consume food. Historically, data for studies of food preferences stems from consumer panels which continuously capture food consumption and preference patterns from individuals and households. In this talk we will look at a new source of data, i.e., server log data from a large recipe platform on the World Wide Web, and explore its usefulness for understanding online food preferences. Further, we we will explore how multilingual and collaboratively generated descriptions of food on Wikipedia may allow us to infer and assess relations between different cultural communities.
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