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digest-27900	Eanes, Ryan S.	Top Chef and Taste: Traditional Foods as Trends	2014	13	.pdf	application/pdf	5319	268	60	By identifying and disparaging food trends, Cowin cements her position as a cultural elite; she and the judges further assert their authority as cultural elites by judging the value of the dishes prepared by the cheftestants, despite the fact that Cowin ultimately praises dishes that do the best job of highlighting the “trendy” ingredient or technique in question. This rejection of the common—the popular—is precisely what Cowin, as an ambassador for the cultural cognoscenti, is doing when she states that certain food trends (more accurately described as popular methods of preparing and serving food, particularly in the restaurant environment) “should be buried.”	cache/digest-27900.pdf	txt/digest-27900.txt