Umfang:
ix, 188 Seiten
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Illustrationen, 1 Diagramm
Ausgabe:
paperback edition
ISBN:
9781350132306
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9781350205444
Serie:
Food in modern history
Inhalt:
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.
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Quellen- und Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 173-186
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781350132313
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781350132320
Sprache:
Englisch
Schlagwort(e):
Bulgarien
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Ernährungsgewohnheit
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Kochen
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Kochbuch
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Dissens
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Geschichte 1945-1990
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