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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... important Russian songwriter and singer, the Soviet analogue of Bob Dylan, whose lyrics often contained irony and expressed criticism of life in the Soviet Union, hidden behind poetic metaphors. common, zealous and extensive and many ...
... important Russian songwriter and singer, the Soviet analogue of Bob Dylan, whose lyrics often contained irony and expressed criticism of life in the Soviet Union, hidden behind poetic metaphors. common, zealous and extensive and many ...
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... importance of recipe exchange, at the beginning of 2017 I included several questions in a national sociological poll, which was carried out by the Bulgarian polling agency Alpha Research 6 . The results, based on a representative sample ...
... importance of recipe exchange, at the beginning of 2017 I included several questions in a national sociological poll, which was carried out by the Bulgarian polling agency Alpha Research 6 . The results, based on a representative sample ...
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... importance in households. About 20 per cent of the female respondents said they did not have a cookbook at home before 1989. Even so, the percentage of those who preferred to use handwritten recipes is significantly higher. The kitchen ...
... importance in households. About 20 per cent of the female respondents said they did not have a cookbook at home before 1989. Even so, the percentage of those who preferred to use handwritten recipes is significantly higher. The kitchen ...
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... importance of cultural inertia and perhaps endorses the role that striving for quality played as a driver in the women's choice to cook at home. She studied the second generation of women in the Israeli kibbutz, who, after their mothers ...
... importance of cultural inertia and perhaps endorses the role that striving for quality played as a driver in the women's choice to cook at home. She studied the second generation of women in the Israeli kibbutz, who, after their mothers ...
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... importance across the communist bloc. Three recent publications, which have appeared in the period between the completion and the publication of this book, made an important contribution by putting the communist-era scrapbooks in the ...
... importance across the communist bloc. Three recent publications, which have appeared in the period between the completion and the publication of this book, made an important contribution by putting the communist-era scrapbooks in the ...
Inhoudsopgave
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PART TWO HOME COOKING BETWEEN COOKBOOKS AND SCRAPBOOKS | 67 |
PART THREE THE MEANINGS OF SCRAPBOOKS | 89 |
PART FOUR WHAT MADE SCRAPBOOKS INDISPENSABLE | 163 |
References | 173 |
Index | 187 |
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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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