Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist BulgariaBloomsbury Publishing, 28 jan 2021 - 200 pagina's 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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... example). 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 ...
... example). 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 ...
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... example, why in couples in which the men lost jobs and remained unemployed, there was no serious 'undoing' of gender: women continued to assume most of the cooking obligations in the family. They explained it with the reinforcement of ...
... example, why in couples in which the men lost jobs and remained unemployed, there was no serious 'undoing' of gender: women continued to assume most of the cooking obligations in the family. They explained it with the reinforcement of ...
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... example, would do much more than their share of certain chores, if they do not believe that their partners will do their part, providing care/work that the women would consider to be of reasonable quality. Gvion's research (2015) ...
... example, would do much more than their share of certain chores, if they do not believe that their partners will do their part, providing care/work that the women would consider to be of reasonable quality. Gvion's research (2015) ...
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... examples are the research of Kirschenblatt-Gimblett (1987) on how Jewish women bridged the religious canon with the imperatives of modernity, as transpiring from their recipes, or Zlotnik's study of how British women participated in ...
... examples are the research of Kirschenblatt-Gimblett (1987) on how Jewish women bridged the religious canon with the imperatives of modernity, as transpiring from their recipes, or Zlotnik's study of how British women participated in ...
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... example of Socialist Realism, an 'aestheticisation of reality in order to facilitate the reconstruction of Soviet existence' (Geist 2012: 296). In other countries from the communist bloc Keating (2018), Nilgen (2020) and my own research ...
... example of Socialist Realism, an 'aestheticisation of reality in order to facilitate the reconstruction of Soviet existence' (Geist 2012: 296). In other countries from the communist bloc Keating (2018), Nilgen (2020) and my own research ...
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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