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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... interpreted. Was it simply a case of need? Was it the pressure of preserving patriarchal family order in Bulgaria? Or was it a method of self-identification? And if it was part of the role in which women wanted to see themselves, how ...
... interpreted. Was it simply a case of need? Was it the pressure of preserving patriarchal family order in Bulgaria? Or was it a method of self-identification? And if it was part of the role in which women wanted to see themselves, how ...
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... interpretations of the discussed historical periods. As historical research advanced, the understanding of the political nature of food expanded and so did the studies on how cookbooks transmit ideologies. Researchers addressed the ...
... interpretations of the discussed historical periods. As historical research advanced, the understanding of the political nature of food expanded and so did the studies on how cookbooks transmit ideologies. Researchers addressed the ...
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... interpreted it as a politically-grounded attempt at establishing Soviet haute cuisine , a clearly propagandist act of the political leadership (Gronow and Zhuravlev 2011). Geist saw it as a unique example of Socialist Realism, an ...
... interpreted it as a politically-grounded attempt at establishing Soviet haute cuisine , a clearly propagandist act of the political leadership (Gronow and Zhuravlev 2011). Geist saw it as a unique example of Socialist Realism, an ...
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... interpreted scrapbooks as documents of trust and solidarity, as strategies for coping with economic difficulties and as instruments for constructing identity. They confirmed in many instances the research of Theophano (2002), whose ...
... interpreted scrapbooks as documents of trust and solidarity, as strategies for coping with economic difficulties and as instruments for constructing identity. They confirmed in many instances the research of Theophano (2002), whose ...
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... interpretation has been somewhat different. Reid spoke of the communist consumer as not only 'a passive object of central planning, market research, representation, and discipline, but as an active agent who, through her consumption ...
... interpretation has been somewhat different. Reid spoke of the communist consumer as not only 'a passive object of central planning, market research, representation, and discipline, but as an active agent who, through her consumption ...
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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