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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... 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 ...
... 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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... seen both as empowering their authors or the communities which created them, and as conveying various, sometimes oppressive ideologies. The value of these documents had been overlooked in the past, but lately the realization that they ...
... seen both as empowering their authors or the communities which created them, and as conveying various, sometimes oppressive ideologies. The value of these documents had been overlooked in the past, but lately the realization that they ...
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... seen. Figure 2 The trends in cookbook publishing in communist Bulgaria, comparing literature addressing professional cooks, with recipe collections for home cooking (new titles). Figure 3 A poster by Simeon Krustev from 1978, reading.
... seen. Figure 2 The trends in cookbook publishing in communist Bulgaria, comparing literature addressing professional cooks, with recipe collections for home cooking (new titles). Figure 3 A poster by Simeon Krustev from 1978, reading.
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Albena Shkodrova. In this context, in which the entire society was seen as a machine, consuming and digesting in order to fulfil the state economy plan and cooking was no more than 'the first phase of digestion' (Cholcheva 1947: 337 ...
Albena Shkodrova. In this context, in which the entire society was seen as a machine, consuming and digesting in order to fulfil the state economy plan and cooking was no more than 'the first phase of digestion' (Cholcheva 1947: 337 ...
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... seen as a private matter and was subjected at all times to ideological directions (Reid 2002: 249). In a certain sense such 'ruling over people's desires', as Fischler has branded it, took place also in the US, where the Committee on ...
... seen as a private matter and was subjected at all times to ideological directions (Reid 2002: 249). In a certain sense such 'ruling over people's desires', as Fischler has branded it, took place also in the US, where the Committee on ...
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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