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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Pagina 10
... least explored areas in the study of cookbooks and in cultural food studies in general. Things stand differently when it comes to older cookery manuscripts. Those, predating the rise of cookbook publishing, have been analyzed as unique ...
... least explored areas in the study of cookbooks and in cultural food studies in general. Things stand differently when it comes to older cookery manuscripts. Those, predating the rise of cookbook publishing, have been analyzed as unique ...
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... least thirty-two new titles in the 1920s and seventy-nine in the 1930s, to which numerous additional print runs of earlier books were added. However puzzling it may seem, the 1930s turned out to be the golden age of the 20thcentury ...
... least thirty-two new titles in the 1920s and seventy-nine in the 1930s, to which numerous additional print runs of earlier books were added. However puzzling it may seem, the 1930s turned out to be the golden age of the 20thcentury ...
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... least during daytime and changed the family routine for many (Gavrilova 1999: 350). They learned to read and to cook independently from their families, and for purposes different from maintaining their parents' household: many of them ...
... least during daytime and changed the family routine for many (Gavrilova 1999: 350). They learned to read and to cook independently from their families, and for purposes different from maintaining their parents' household: many of them ...
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... least on many levels inaccessible to a democratic state. This rough design naturally functioned far from flawlessly within the complex social structures. It could not avoid contestations and deviating interpretations, it could only try ...
... least on many levels inaccessible to a democratic state. This rough design naturally functioned far from flawlessly within the complex social structures. It could not avoid contestations and deviating interpretations, it could only try ...
Pagina 28
... least in words, the improvement of the living standard became the priority of the political establishment in the following three decades (Ivanov 2011: 242; Dichev 2005: 76–77; Mineva 2003: 143–145). In this process erstwhile luxury was ...
... least in words, the improvement of the living standard became the priority of the political establishment in the following three decades (Ivanov 2011: 242; Dichev 2005: 76–77; Mineva 2003: 143–145). In this process erstwhile luxury was ...
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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