Russian Food since 1800 : Empire at Table / Catriona Kelly.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kelly, Catriona, author.

Series:

Russian Shorts.

Russian Shorts

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food--History--Russia--19th century.

Food.

Food--History--Russia--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2024.

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Academic, 2024.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

In Russia, food has a hugely important role in political, symbolic, and practical terms. In this illuminating history of Russian food in the modern age, Catriona Kelly - a leading cultural historian and keen amateur cook - reflects on this and an environment where what you eat (and drink) indicates how patriotic you are. Kelly argues that an expectation of 'feeding' is embedded in attitudes to the state as provider, and that rationing systems have traditionally replicated and even enforced social hierarchies. The book looks at how Russian food is intimately connected with family and friends, and was an important source of delight even in the Soviet period, when official culinary provision and practices ostensibly sought to promote nutrition above all, and food was often short. Russian Food since 1800 traces these complex and contradictory associations. It also examines various shifts in diet and cuisine over the last three centuries, including the ways in which old traditions such as pickling and jam-making sit alongside wider world influences from the vast imperial hinterland in the Baltic, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, as well as Western Europe and America.

Contents:

Acknowledgements Abbreviations and Conventions List of Illustrations Introduction: Cabbage Soup and Oysters Chapter 1: Steppe and Field Chapter 2: Meadow and Dairy Chapter 3: Pond and River Chapter 4: Forest and Moor Chapter 5: Garden and Orchard Chapter 6: Hive and Refinery Afterword Further Reading Index

ISBN:

9781350192812

1350192813

OCLC:

1417195707