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Jessica "Claire" Menck, Ph.D.
Claire Menck is an international award winning chef, restaurateur, and scholar. She has been in the food service industry for over twenty-five years, winning awards from the International Hotel and Restaurant Association, Women Chefs and Restaurateurs, the International Food Service Editorial Council, and the James Beard Foundation; as well as a host of other professional accolades. Claire's experience covers both the front and back of the house, as well as nearly 15 years in management. She also has nearly ten years of consulting experience in a variety of locations and operations, and taught extensively both online and in traditional classroom settings.
Her passion for food has led her to investigate issues of sustainability in the global food system from an academic perspective. Her research in food systems focuses on how communities use food to establish and maintain meaning and cohesion in response to trauma. Her most recent work: Recipes of Resolve: Food & Meaning in Post-Diluvian New Orleans looks at food following the twin crises of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. The dissertation has been nominated for the 2011 Samuel Prince Dissertation Award. She has presented this work at a variety of conferences, as well as publishing multiple articles and chapters on these topics. While in New Orleans she also worked on the documentary 'No One Ever Went Hungry,' the Louisiana Endowment for the Arts 2012 Documentary of the Year. She is also a regular contributor to the Southern Food and Beverage Museums magazine, Okra. Claire is also a passionate advocate for social media and has developed a secondary research agenda that investigates the role social and emerging media plays in disaster. Her research in this area has focused on how social media was used during Hurricane Katrina, the BP oil spill, and (most recently) during the political rallies in Wisconsin following the January 2011 budget crisis. She has published numerous chapters and articles on social media, and has taught courses both online and in traditional classroom settings. Check out No One Ever Went Hungry,
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