Communist Gourmet

Author : Albena Shkodrova
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-05-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633864043

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Communist Gourmet by Albena Shkodrova Pdf

Communist Gourmet presents a lively, detailed account of how the communist regime in Bulgaria determined people’s everyday food experience between 1944 and 1989. It examines the daily routines of acquiring food, cooking it, and eating out at restaurants through the memories of Bulgarians and foreigners, during communism. In looking back on a wide array of issues and events, Albena Shkodrova attempts to explain the paradoxes of daily existence. She reports human stories that are touching, sometimes dark, but often full of humor and anecdotes from nearly one hundred people: some of them are Bulgarians who were involved in the communist food industry, whether as consumers or employees, while others are visitors from the United States and Western Europe who report culinary highlights and disappointments. The author made use of the national press, officially published cookbooks, Communist Party documents, and other previously unstudied sources. An appendix containing recipes of dishes typical of the period and an extensive set of archival photographs are special features of the volume.

Author : Albena Shkodrova
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781350132313

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Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria by Albena Shkodrova Pdf

How did people exist and resist in their daily lives under Soviet control in the Cold War period? Shkodrova's monograph shows how in communist Bulgaria many women passionately exchanged recipes with friends and strangers, to build substantial and impressive private collections of recipes. This activity was borderline contraband in going against the general disapproval of home cooking that formed part of the ideology of communism, in which home cooking was considered household slavery and an agent of patriarchalism. Private recipe collections were by far the preferred written source of culinary information, more popular than the state-approved commercial cookbooks. Shkodrova shows how these recipe collections held many different meanings for the women who collected them, from helping to navigate the communist economy, to enabling new friendships to be developed while engaging safely in power relations, and cultivating a sense of individual identity in a society where collective existence was prioritised and exalted. Drawing on primary sources including scrapbook cookbooks and working from the establishment of cookery classes before communism and their obliteration thereafter, Shkodrova presents a structured outline of the meanings of recipes exchange and home cooking for Bulgarian women under communism.

Author : Leonard Barkan
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780810124943

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Satyr Square by Leonard Barkan Pdf

The bewitching story of Rome teaching a lonely scholar how to discover himself, "Satyr Square"--part memoir, part literary criticism, part culinary and aesthetic travelogue--is a poignant, hilarious narrative about an American professor spending a magical year in Rome.

Author : Fabio Parasecoli
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780231554374

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Gastronativism by Fabio Parasecoli Pdf

Winner, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards - Food - Food Heritage - USA Nominee, Book Award in Food Issues and Advocacy, James Beard Foundation The Italian political right is outraged by halal tortellini and a pork-free lasagna served at the Vatican. In India, Hindu fundamentalists organize attacks on Muslims who sell beef. European anti-immigrant politicians denounce couscous and kebabs. In an era of nationalist and exclusionary movements, food has become a potent symbol of identity. Why has eating become so politically charged—and can the emotions surrounding food be redirected in a healthier direction? Fabio Parasecoli identifies and defines the phenomenon of “gastronativism,” the ideological use of food to advance ideas about who belongs to a community and who does not. As globalization and neoliberalism have transformed food systems, people have responded by seeking to return to their roots. Many have embraced local ingredients and notions of cultural heritage, but this impulse can play into the hands of nationalist and xenophobic political projects. Such movements draw on the strong emotions connected with eating to stoke resentment and contempt for other people and cultures. Parasecoli emphasizes that gastronativism is a worldwide phenomenon, even as it often purports to oppose local aspects and consequences of globalization. He also explores how to channel pride in culinary traditions toward resisting transnational corporations, uplifting marginalized and oppressed groups, and assisting people left behind by globalization. Featuring a wide array of examples from all over the world, Gastronativism is a timely, incisive, and lively analysis of how and why food has become a powerful political tool.

Author : Caryn E. Neumann,Lori L. Parks,Joel G. Parks
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-06-30
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9798216171621

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Global Dishes by Caryn E. Neumann,Lori L. Parks,Joel G. Parks Pdf

Through an interdisciplinary approach that shows how food can reflect a culture and time, this book whets the appetite of students for further research into history, anthropology, geography, sociology, and literature. Food is a great unifier. It is used to mark milestones or rites of passage. It is integral to the way we celebrate, connecting a familial and cultural past to the present through tradition. It bolsters the ill and soothes those in mourning. The dishes in this text are those that have come to be known within a part of the world and culture, but also have moved beyond those borders and are accessible and enjoyed by many in our ever-smaller and more-interconnected world. Featuring more than 100 recipes and detailed discussions of dishes from across the globe, Global Dishes: Favorite Meals from around the World explores the history and cultural context surrounding some of the best-known and favorite foods. The book covers national dishes from more than 100 countries, including large nations like Mexico and small countries like Macao. There is also coverage of foods beloved by Indigenous peoples, such as the Sami of Scandinavia. Traditional favorites are offered as well as newer dishes.

Author : Jonathan Charley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-03
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317042877

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The Routledge Companion on Architecture, Literature and The City by Jonathan Charley Pdf

This Companion breaks new ground in our knowledge and understanding of the diverse relationships between literature, architecture, and the city, which together form a field of interdisciplinary research that is one of the most innovative and exciting to have emerged in recent years. Bringing together a wide variety of contributors, not only writers, architectural and literary scholars, and social scientists, but graphic novelists and artists, the book offers contemporary essays on everything from science fiction and the crime novel, to poetry, comics and oral history. It is structured into two sections: History, Narrative and Genre, and Strategy, Language and Form. Including over ninety illustrations, the book is a must read for academics and students.

Author : Tan Chee-Beng
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789971695484

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Chinese Food and Foodways in Southeast Asia and Beyond by Tan Chee-Beng Pdf

Chinese cuisine has had a deep impact on culinary traditions in Southeast Asia, where the lack of certain ingredients and access to new ingredients along with the culinary knowledge of local people led Chinese migrants to modify traditional dishes and to invent new foods. This process brought the cuisine of southern China, considered by some writers to be "the finest in the world," into contact with a wide range of local and global cuisines and ingredients. When Chinese from Southeast Asia moved on to other parts of the world, they brought these variants of Chinese food with them, completing a cycle of culinary reproduction, localization and invention, and globalization. The process does not end there, for the new context offers yet another set of ingredients and culinary traditions, and the "embedding and fusing of foods" continues, creating additional hybrid forms. Written by scholars whose deep familiarity with Chinese cuisine is both personal and academic, Chinese Food and Foodways in Southeast Asia and Beyond is a book that anyone who has been fortunate enough to encounter Southeast Asian food will savour, and it provides a window on this world for those who have yet to discover it.

Author : Eugene Lyons
Publisher : Rare Treasure Editions
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2024-03-13T00:00:00Z
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781774646779

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The Red Decade: The Classic Work on Communism in America During the Thirties by Eugene Lyons Pdf

Originally titled The Red Decade: Stalinist Penetration of America, this work describes a period in American history in the 1930s characterized by a widespread infatuation with communism in general and Stalinism in particular. Lyons believed this idolization of Joseph Stalin and of Bolshevik achievements to have reached its high point in 1938, running deepest amongst liberals, intellectuals, and journalists and even some government and federal officials. Of relevance today in light of the current interest in Socialism expressed by young voters and progressives in the U.S.

Author : Jin Feng
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295746005

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Tasting Paradise on Earth by Jin Feng Pdf

Preparing and consuming food is an integral part of identity formation, which in contemporary China embodies tension between fast-forward modernization and cultural nostalgia. Jin Feng’s wide-ranging exploration of cities in the Lower Yangzi Delta—or Jiangnan, a region known for its paradisiacal beauty and abundant resources—illustrates how people preserve culinary inheritance while also revamping it for the new millennium. Throughout Chinese history, food nostalgia has generated cultural currency for individuals. Feng examines literary treatments of Jiangnan foodways from late imperial and twentieth-century China, highlighting the role played by gender and tracing the contemporary metamorphosis of this cultural landscape, with its new platforms for food culture, such as television and the internet. As communities in Jiangnan refashion their regional heritage, culinary arts shine as markers of ethnic and social distinction.

Author : Gang Yue
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822323419

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The Mouth that Begs by Gang Yue Pdf

Drawing on narrative works acoss a century and across Chinese and Chinese-American cultural lines, Yue examines Chinese cultural politics of the twentieth century as an "alimentary discourse," where the roles of food and "eating" wi

Author : Paul Kengor
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781621576150

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism by Paul Kengor Pdf

A brand-new installment of the beloved Politically Incorrect Guide series! The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism is a fearless critique of freedom's greatest ideological adversary, past and present.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Europe, Eastern
ISBN : UVA:X030806397

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East Europe by Anonim Pdf

Author : Samuel O. Idowu,Henk J. de Vries,Ivana Mijatovic,Donggeun Choi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783030287153

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Sustainable Development by Samuel O. Idowu,Henk J. de Vries,Ivana Mijatovic,Donggeun Choi Pdf

This book examines education about standardization in the context of sustainable management. It shows the role of standardization education in the global economy, and in markets, industries and businesses. The book presents knowledge on standardization for sustainable management, describes measures that can be taken to stimulate it, and highlights strategies for teaching and disseminating the concept. Subsequently presenting a number of best practices and case studies, the book seeks to align theory and practice. For researchers, this is the first academic publication that interconnects the concepts of sustainability, standardization and education. For professionals in the area of sustainability it shows that standardization is an essential instrument for enhancing sustainability for which proper education is needed. For standardization professionals the book reveals the links to sustainability and it shows not only the importance of education about standardization but also how this can be organized, and finally, for universities, the book shows that standardization deserves to be included in the curriculum, and it provides guidance and best practice examples about how this can be done.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : New Zealand
ISBN : UVA:X030683447

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New Zealand National Bibliography by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Intelligence service
ISBN : STANFORD:36105073142932

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Covertaction Quarterly by Anonim Pdf