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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... never seen before. It was a volume the size of a standard A4 sheet, with hard covers, bound in blue cloth and with faded golden letters that read Cooking Recipes . I knew straight away that it was a samizdat 1 book: it had the typical ...
... never seen before. It was a volume the size of a standard A4 sheet, with hard covers, bound in blue cloth and with faded golden letters that read Cooking Recipes . I knew straight away that it was a samizdat 1 book: it had the typical ...
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... never thought of their cooking as if it were sabotage. Yet the stories of Cathy Ivanova and Tamara Ganeva made me wonder. Eventually a research project, inspired by their stories, brought me to the discovery that recipe exchange was ...
... never thought of their cooking as if it were sabotage. Yet the stories of Cathy Ivanova and Tamara Ganeva made me wonder. Eventually a research project, inspired by their stories, brought me to the discovery that recipe exchange was ...
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Albena Shkodrova. Cathy Ivanova's book proved to be quite exceptional as I never found another collection that had been transformed into such a resemblance of a professionally printed cookbook. However many other scrapbooks revealed ...
Albena Shkodrova. Cathy Ivanova's book proved to be quite exceptional as I never found another collection that had been transformed into such a resemblance of a professionally printed cookbook. However many other scrapbooks revealed ...
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... never existed, suffering the same fate as the early Czech communist Clementis, described by Kundera (1983: 3). The new leadership developed along the lines of the ideological Cooking Advice in Bulgaria 19 SETTING UP THE COMMUNIST ARENA.
... never existed, suffering the same fate as the early Czech communist Clementis, described by Kundera (1983: 3). The new leadership developed along the lines of the ideological Cooking Advice in Bulgaria 19 SETTING UP THE COMMUNIST ARENA.
Pagina 21
... never addressed anyone with the standard communist drugar (comrade) (Malinova et al. 2015: 8), which was considered a stark sign of political disloyalty. It was probably the experience, connections and rationality of the couple that saw ...
... never addressed anyone with the standard communist drugar (comrade) (Malinova et al. 2015: 8), which was considered a stark sign of political disloyalty. It was probably the experience, connections and rationality of the couple that saw ...
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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