Tracy Berno

Tracy Berno is a New Zealand academic, specialising in cross-cultural psychology and food. As of 2022 she is a full professor of the culinary arts in the School of Hospitality and Tourism at Auckland University of Technology.

Academic career

Berno has a BA with honours in psychology from Vassar College, and an MA in psychology from the University of Canterbury. She completed a PhD in psychology in 1995 and also has a postgraduate tertiary teaching certificate from the University of the South Pacific. Berno worked as Planning Director and a lecturer in tourism at Lincoln University, and in 1996 was awarded an Excellence in Teaching award. The citation noted Berno's skill in making the learning process of quantitative social science research methods enjoyable. Berno moved to Auckland University of Technology, rising to full professor in January 2022. She is also an adjunct professor at the University of the South Pacific. Her research centres on sustainable food systems, and a "food-lab approach" to socially and economically sustainable development. Berno founded Pacific Food Lab-Aotearoa (PFL-A), which is a partner organisation to Pacific Food Lab-New Caledonia.

Berno has co-authored three award-winning books on "agriculture, culture, cuisine and tourism development in the South Pacific and Asia". Me'a Kai: The Food and Flavours of the South Pacific ,which Berno co-authored with Robert Oliver and Shiri Ram, was awarded the Best New Zealand Cookbook and the Cookbook of the Year award in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards in 2010. Berno contributed to Hiakai: Modern Māori Cuisine with chef Monique Fiso, with research on the origins of Māori cuisine. Hiakai won the best illustrated non-fiction award at the 2021 Ockham New Zealand Book Awards. Mea´Ai Samoa. Recipes and Stories from the heart of Polynesia was another collaboration with chef Robert Oliver and photographer Shiri Ram, it won the "Best authors and chefs award" in the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards of 2014.

Selected works

Cookbooks

• Monique Fiso; Lucy Corry; Tracy Berno (2020). Hiakai: modern Māori cuisine. Auckland: Godwit Press. ISBN 978-0-14-377260-6. OCLC 1182024455. Wikidata Q115488367.
• Robert Oliver; Tracy Berno (2013). Meʻai Samoa: recipes and stories from the heart of Samoa. Auckland: Godwit Press. ISBN 978-1-77553-427-3. OCLC 858410775. Wikidata Q115488369.
• Robert Oliver; Tracy Berno; Shiri Ram (2010). Me'a kai: the food and flavours of the South Pacific. Auckland: Godwit Press. ISBN 978-1-86962-175-9. OCLC 612371957. OL 28452199M. Wikidata Q115488368.

Academic publications

• Tracy Berno; Colleen Ward (1 September 2005). "Innocence abroad: a pocket guide to psychological research on tourism". American Psychologist. 60 (6): 593–600. doi:10.1037/0003-066X.60.6.593. ISSN 0003-066X. PMID 16173892. Wikidata Q36262158.
• Tracy Berno; Colleen Ward (2003), Cross-cultural and educational adaptation of Asian students in New Zealand (PDF), Wellington: Asia 2000 Foundation of New Zealand, OCLC 1135041944, Wikidata Q115488366
• Colleen Ward; Tracy Berno (October 2011). "Beyond social exchange theory". Annals of Tourism Research. 38 (4): 1556–1569. doi:10.1016/J.ANNALS.2011.02.005. ISSN 0160-7383. Wikidata Q115489239.
• Tracy Berno; Francesc Fusté-Forné (7 April 2019). "Imaginaries of cheese: revisiting narratives of local produce in the contemporary world". Annals of leisure research. 23 (5): 608–626. doi:10.1080/11745398.2019.1603113. ISSN 1174-5398. Wikidata Q115489284.
• Tracy Berno; Gobie Rajalingam; Agueda Isolina Miranda; Julia Ximenes (1 April 2021). "Promoting sustainable tourism futures in Timor-Leste by creating synergies between food, place and people". Journal of Sustainable Tourism. 30 (2–3): 500–514. doi:10.1080/09669582.2021.1895819. ISSN 0966-9582. Wikidata Q115489283.
• Tracy Berno (July 1999). "When a guest is a guest". Annals of Tourism Research. 26 (3): 656–675. doi:10.1016/S0160-7383(99)00002-X. ISSN 0160-7383. Wikidata Q115489282.