Food & everyday life in the postsocialist world
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Food & everyday life in the postsocialist world
Indiana University Press, c2009
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Food and everyday life in the postsocialist world
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Contents of Works
- From canned food to canny consumers : cultural competence in the age of mechanical production / Yuson Jung
- Tale of the toxic paprika : the Hungarian taste of Euro-globalization / Zsuzsa Gille
- Self-made women : informal dairy markets in Europeanizing Lithuania / Diana Mincyte
- Tempest in a coffee pot : brewing incivility in Russia's public sphere / Melissa L. Caldwell
- The geopolitics of taste : the "Euro" and "Soviet" sausage industries in Lithuania / Neringa Klumbytė
- A celebration of Masterstvo : professional cooking, culinary art, and cultural production in Russa / Stas Shectman
- The social and gendered lives of vodka in rural Siberia / Katherine Metzo
- Turnips and mangos : power and the edible state in Eastern Europe / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Across the Soviet Union and eastern Europe during the socialist period, food emerged as a symbol of both the successes and failures of socialist ideals of progress, equality, and modernity. By the late 1980s, the arrival of McDonald's behind the Iron Curtain epitomized the changes that swept across the socialist world. Not quite two decades later, the effects of these arrivals were evident in the spread of foreign food corporations and their integration into local communities. This book explores the role played by food - as commodity, symbol, and sustenance - in the transformation of life in Russia and eastern Europe since the end of socialism. Changes in food production systems, consumption patterns, food safety, and ideas about health, well-being, nationalism, and history provide useful perspectives on the meaning of the postsocialist transition for those who lived through it.
Table of Contents
- Foreword / Marion Nestle
- Acknowledgments Introduction: Food and Everyday Life after State Socialism / Melissa L. Caldwell
- 1. From Canned Food to Canny Consumers: Cultural Competence in the Age of Mechanical Production / Yuson Jung
- 2. The Tale of the Toxic Paprika: The Hungarian Taste of Euro-Globalization / Zsuzsa Gille
- 3. Self-Made Women: Informal Dairy Markets in Europeanizing Lithuania / Diana Mincyte
- 4. Tempest in a Coffee Pot: Brewing Incivility in Russia's Public Sphere / Melissa L. Caldwell
- 5. The Geopolitics of Taste: The "Euro" and "Soviet" Sausage Industries in Lithuania / Neringa Klumbyte
- 6. A Celebration of Masterstvo: Professional Cooking, Culinary Art, and Cultural Production in Russia / Stas Shectman
- 7. The Social and Gendered Lives of Vodka in Rural Siberia / Katherine Metzo
- Afterword. Turnips and Mangos: Power and the Edible State in Eastern Europe / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn List of Contributors
- Index
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