ABSTRACT

At Walt Disney World’s Port Orleans Resort in Central Florida, the hotel’s restaurant, Boatwright’s Dining Hall, employs traditional southern and Louisiana cuisine to facilitate an immersive touristic experience inspired by the nineteenth-century US South. Opened in 1992, the restaurant and hotel present a romanticisation of the South embodied in foodways, architecture, and a fictional past that selectively sources the history of the region. Through the themed design principle of ‘concentricity’, the foodways of Boatwright’s Dining Hall operate in overlapping areas of cultural meaning to reciprocally authenticate the resort’s fabricated historical architecture and southern heritage in an idealised and immersive space known as a hyperreality. Named menu offerings at Boatwright’s Dining Hall connect the resort’s past and setting by memorialising the resort’s fictional founders and crafting associations with recreated southern spaces popularly connected to the region. As an authenticating experience, touristic consumption of food at Boatwright’s Dining Hall functions as a real and edible manifestation of a place-based commodified imagining of the nineteenth-century South, linking the dinner, restaurant, and hotel to a southern-inspired, fictional past and place, effectively displacing historic and present connections to the real US South.

摘要

在佛罗里达州中部沃尔特·迪斯尼世界的奥尔良港度假胜地，酒店的餐厅Boatwright的Dining Hall采用传统的南部和路易斯安那州美食，以营造受19世纪美国南部启发的身临其境的旅游体验。这家餐厅和酒店于1992年开业，展现了南方人的浪漫情怀，体现在美食道，建筑和虚构的过去中，有选择地获取了该地区的历史。通过“同心”的主题设计原则，Boatwright饭厅的食道在具有文化涵义的重叠区域中运作，从而在理想化且身临其境的超现实主义空间中相互验证了度假胜地虚构的历史建筑和南方遗产。Boatwright's Dining Hall餐厅的命名菜单产品通过纪念度假区的虚构创始人和手工艺品协会以及重新创建的，经常与该地区相连的南部空间来纪念度假区的过去和环境。作为一种真实的体验，在Boatwright的餐厅就餐的游客消费，是对十九世纪南方基于地点的商业化想象的真实和可食用的体现，将晚餐，餐厅和酒店与南方风格的虚构历史联系在一起和地点，有效地取代了与真实美国南部的历史和当前联系。