In this paper, we situate New Orleans’ post-Katrina “restaurant renaissance” within a context of historical and contemporary racial gender inequities. This provides space for critical consideration the celebratory narratives popularly attached to city’s most prominent chefs their roles in “rebuilding” Orleans wake Hurricane Katrina 2005. Our critique focuses on practice chef “celanthropy” (cele...

Celebrities have gained considerable influence in the last one hundred years or so, but the advent of so-called Web 2.0 technologies has given celebrity culture a new momentum. We are living in a world in which celebrities are striving to curve their place in every niche and hence we have to become more media literate in order to avoid being exploited by celebrity media and culture. We have to ...