Specifically, in China, due to historical and geographical reasons, the catering industry in some cities has developed slowly, and people's dietary tastes are relatively single, resulting in the phenomenon of "gourmet desert".
A typical example is Hulunbeier, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, which is one of the largest pastoral areas in China. Due to its remote location, foreign catering culture and raw material resources are very scarce. The local residents' dietary tastes are mainly meat, mostly grassland people, with relatively simple eating habits and relatively few kinds of dishes. Similar places include Tibet and other ethnic minority areas.
Abroad, the typical example is Omaha, Nebraska, USA. The city is located inland, with inconvenient transportation, and the surrounding areas are short of food culture and food resources, which leads to the lack of characteristics and popularity of local food culture, and is called the food desert.
In short, the "gourmet desert" is called "desert" because the food culture and food resources in a certain area are relatively lacking, resulting in a relatively single catering industry and dishes, and people's needs and expectations for food cannot be met.
To change the phenomenon that a city becomes a "gourmet desert", we can start from the following aspects:
Stimulate the sense of innovation: the municipal government can encourage local people and foreign talents to innovate and provide more distinctive and quality food. The government can provide financial support, tax relief and other policies to attract more innovators to participate in the food industry.
Strengthen education and training: The government can strengthen the training and education of the food industry, improve the skills and knowledge of employees, help them better master the skills of cooking and management, and improve the overall quality of the food industry.
Intensify market promotion: The government can use various channels such as media, internet and advertisements to promote the city's food culture and attract more tourists and investors to explore, taste and invest.
Optimize the market environment: the government can optimize the market environment by reducing the tax burden and strengthening market supervision, reduce the operating costs of practitioners, attract more merchants to enter the food market, and improve market competitiveness.
Enhance consumers' consumption awareness: The government can guide consumers to pay more attention to food quality and hygiene by strengthening food safety supervision and raising public consumption awareness, thus promoting the healthy development of the food industry.
In short, to change the phenomenon that a city becomes a "gourmet desert", the government, practitioners and consumers need to work together to strengthen innovation, improve quality, publicize culture, optimize the environment, raise awareness and create a good gourmet ecological environment.