I. Definition of Gourmet Desert
Gourmet desert refers to the lack of culinary culture and characteristics of a region or city, the low level of catering industry, the lack of representative local characteristics of catering, single ingredients, monotonous flavors, and the lack of appealing food attractions and food festivals. In such a city, people's dietary choices and quality are greatly restricted, and may even lead to monotonous diet and malnutrition.
II. Beijing - a representative of a culinary desert
Beijing is the capital of China, a city with a long history and splendid culture, but it does not excel in terms of cuisine. First of all, the level of Beijing's catering industry is low overall, with most restaurants having poor service attitudes, poor environments, not-so-good hygiene conditions, and less-than-excellent quality ingredients. Secondly, Beijing's culinary culture and characteristics are not obvious, there are no representative local specialties, single ingredients, monotonous flavors, and most restaurants serve ordinary home cooking that lacks innovation and characteristics. Finally, Beijing lacks attractive food attractions and food festivals, and there are no places and activities that can attract tourists and locals to come and taste food.
Three: Other Cities with Culinary Deserts
Besides Beijing, there are other cities that are also considered culinary deserts. For example, although Chongqing is a city with a relatively rich culinary culture and characteristics, the terrain and environmental constraints have resulted in the culinary culture and industry not being well developed. Another example is Harbin, which is famous for its northeastern cuisine, but due to the city's low overall economic level, the culinary industry has not been well developed. In addition, like some emerging cities, such as many third and fourth tier cities in China, also lack the conditions to develop culinary culture and industry due to economic and cultural reasons, and become culinary deserts.
Fourth, the solution to gastronomic desert
In order to solve the problem of gastronomic desert, we can start from the following aspects:
1. Cultivate the local gastronomic culture and characteristics, explore local gastronomic resources, launch representative catering brands and specialties, and increase the gastronomic attractiveness of the city.
2. Enhance the service quality and level of the catering industry, strengthen the management and supervision of the catering industry, and ensure the hygiene, safety and quality of the catering industry.
3. Increase the number of food festivals and food attractions, organize food festivals with special characteristics, and create attractive food attractions to attract tourists and locals to taste food.
4. support the development of the culinary industry, provide policy, financial and technical support, promote innovation and development of the culinary industry, and create a competitive culinary industry.
V. Conclusion
Gastronomic desert is a manifestation of a city in an unfavorable state in terms of gastronomic culture and industry. Beijing is a typical gastronomic desert city, with its overall low level of catering industry, lack of gastronomic culture and characteristics, and lack of attractive gastronomic attractions and gastronomic festivals. In order to solve the problem of gastronomic desert, it is necessary to start from several aspects, cultivate local gastronomic culture and characteristics, improve the service quality and level of catering industry, increase the number of gastronomic festivals and gastronomic attractions, support the development of gastronomic industry, and create a competitive gastronomic industry.