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Recipes for Russia : food and nationhood under the tsars / Alison K. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Alison Karen.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Diet--Russia.
- Diet.
- Food supply--Government policy--Russia--History.
- Food supply.
- Food habits--Russia--History.
- Food habits.
- History.
- Food supply--Government policy.
- Russia.
- Physical Description:
- x, 259 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, [2008]
- Contents:
- Part I Authority and Material Concerns
- 1 Ensuring Sustenance-The State and the Starving Peasant 13
- 2 Making Cabbage Healthy-Dietetics and Public Health as a National Concern 44
- 3 Describing the Russian Diet-Ethnography, History, and Cultural Definition 72
- Part II Production and Consumption from Theory to Practice
- 4 Searching for an Authority-Encyclopedists and the Art of Translation 101
- 5 Who Is Responsible?-Master Chefs, Gentlemen Farmers, and Progressive Patriotism 122
- 6 Audiences and Authorities-Russian Housewives and European Gastronomes 147.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-254) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Benjamin Franklin Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780875803814
- 0875803814
- OCLC:
- 166273852
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