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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... spoke sophisticated Bulgarian and had the air of modesty and slight insecurity in social interaction typical of her generation – which is also the generation of my mother. Cathy Ivanova told me that she had made three copies of the book ...
... spoke sophisticated Bulgarian and had the air of modesty and slight insecurity in social interaction typical of her generation – which is also the generation of my mother. Cathy Ivanova told me that she had made three copies of the book ...
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... spoke of her family life in communist Bulgaria, where she grew up and married. It was during these reminiscences that Tamara Ganeva told me a story. She and her husband were not quite loyal to the regime – they often criticized it in ...
... spoke of her family life in communist Bulgaria, where she grew up and married. It was during these reminiscences that Tamara Ganeva told me a story. She and her husband were not quite loyal to the regime – they often criticized it in ...
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... , whose lyrics often contained irony and expressed criticism of life in the Soviet Union, hidden behind poetic metaphors. common, zealous and extensive and many women spoke to me Behind the Communist Kitchens'Steamy Windows 3.
... , whose lyrics often contained irony and expressed criticism of life in the Soviet Union, hidden behind poetic metaphors. common, zealous and extensive and many women spoke to me Behind the Communist Kitchens'Steamy Windows 3.
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Albena Shkodrova. common, zealous and extensive and many women spoke to me about it as routine. A myriad of uniform replies informed me that women traded recipes 'By all means', 'At any time!', 'Almost daily!', 'Anywhere'. They would ...
Albena Shkodrova. common, zealous and extensive and many women spoke to me about it as routine. A myriad of uniform replies informed me that women traded recipes 'By all means', 'At any time!', 'Almost daily!', 'Anywhere'. They would ...
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... spoke only to a group of women who maintained scrapbooks, their impressions of how widespread recipe exchange was might have been influenced by their specific interests and their social circles. To obtain a less biased idea of the ...
... spoke only to a group of women who maintained scrapbooks, their impressions of how widespread recipe exchange was might have been influenced by their specific interests and their social circles. To obtain a less biased idea of the ...
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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