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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... women traded recipes 'By all means', 'At any time!', 'Almost daily!', 'Anywhere'. They would launch the exchange 'wherever' they met, they would write recipes on and with 'whatever [was] at hand'.4 Most women whom I interviewed, started ...
... women traded recipes 'By all means', 'At any time!', 'Almost daily!', 'Anywhere'. They would launch the exchange 'wherever' they met, they would write recipes on and with 'whatever [was] at hand'.4 Most women whom I interviewed, started ...
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... women's collections extended to several volumes, which were not always ... interviews made it clear that trading of recipes was widespread in communist ... interviews, showed that 90 per cent of the Bulgarian households before 1989 used ...
... women's collections extended to several volumes, which were not always ... interviews made it clear that trading of recipes was widespread in communist ... interviews, showed that 90 per cent of the Bulgarian households before 1989 used ...
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... women, for example, would do much more than their share of certain chores, if they do not believe that their ... interviewed kibbutz women appropriated the traditional gender model, considering that in their personal stories a role model ...
... women, for example, would do much more than their share of certain chores, if they do not believe that their ... interviewed kibbutz women appropriated the traditional gender model, considering that in their personal stories a role model ...
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... women's social needs and interactions, and, finally, to their emotional needs? Another group of questions, related ... interviewed women identified as important, when choosing a source of culinary information in their domestic cooking ...
... women's social needs and interactions, and, finally, to their emotional needs? Another group of questions, related ... interviewed women identified as important, when choosing a source of culinary information in their domestic cooking ...
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... women's societies were created, which were thriving across the country in ... Women were taught how to cook potatoes, how to prepare healthy and cheap food, how ... interviews or autobiographical writings, collected by sociologist Galya ...
... women's societies were created, which were thriving across the country in ... Women were taught how to cook potatoes, how to prepare healthy and cheap food, how ... interviews or autobiographical writings, collected by sociologist Galya ...
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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