Transformed eating habits in postmodern society are the result of the aesthetization and stylization of everyday life and the rise of the new middle class. The eating style has become an important expression of the life and cultural priorities of the postmodern consumer. Those priorities are no longer connected with the satisfaction of biological needs. Eating has become a cultural act by which the consumer satisfies his social, psychological and aesthetic needs. From this on, food practices also reflect the general cultural practice of the consumer. In my master thesis I recognize those practices as components of the individual's cultural capital or more precisely, culinary capital. Based on this positioning of eating habits, I am researching the culinary capital of Ljubljana's restaurants visitors with qualitative method (focus group). I find that regular visitors to restaurants in Ljubljana mostly decide for eating out on the basis of the desire to try new and / or special dishes in a special ambience. By this, they create a culture of eating out, based on a high culinary capital, as consumers are acquainted with culinary novelties, nutritional trends and express their interest in culinary content. They realize their interest in culinary content firstly by eating out and secondly, by being informed and knowledgeable about the culinary culture.
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