Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist BulgariaHow 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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'I thought nobody will think of searching there', she explained. On the same shelf, among recipes and cookbooks, she hid her copy of Fascism by Zhelyu Zhelev. This book by the man who later became the first democratically elected ...
'I thought nobody will think of searching there', she explained. On the same shelf, among recipes and cookbooks, she hid her copy of Fascism by Zhelyu Zhelev. This book by the man who later became the first democratically elected ...
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To identify resistance in cooking practices, though, seemed problematic. I did remember my mother and many of her friends criticizing the communist state, or ridiculing it. But I never thought of their cooking as if it were sabotage.
To identify resistance in cooking practices, though, seemed problematic. I did remember my mother and many of her friends criticizing the communist state, or ridiculing it. But I never thought of their cooking as if it were sabotage.
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However many other scrapbooks revealed extraordinary investments of energy and thought. Some women's collections extended to several volumes, which were not always simply chronological. Some have divided their recipes between different ...
However many other scrapbooks revealed extraordinary investments of energy and thought. Some women's collections extended to several volumes, which were not always simply chronological. Some have divided their recipes between different ...
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Entire social groups were obliterated as 'former people', as they were literally called by the communist State Security, the infamous Durzhavna sigurnost (Lilkov and Hristov 2017). Among them were also socialists, who were thought to ...
Entire social groups were obliterated as 'former people', as they were literally called by the communist State Security, the infamous Durzhavna sigurnost (Lilkov and Hristov 2017). Among them were also socialists, who were thought to ...
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Inhoudsopgave
Recipe Manuscripts Take the Lead | |
Recipe Collection as an Instrument | |
Part Three The Meanings of Scrapbooks | |
Managing Budgets | |
Scrapbooks as Social Capital | |
Entertaining Indulging and Creating the Self | |
Part Four What Made Scrapbooks Indispensable | |
References | |
Index | |
Overige edities - Alles bekijken
Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria Albena Shkodrova Gedeeltelijke weergave - 2021 |
Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria Albena Shkodrova Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2021 |
Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria Albena Shkodrova Geen voorbeeld beschikbaar - 2022 |
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations |
| Auteur | Albena Shkodrova |
| Uitgever | Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021 |
| ISBN | 1350132322, 9781350132320 |
| Lengte | 200 pagina's |
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