The Kingdom of Rye (eBook)

A Brief History of Russian Food

Darra Goldstein (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
200 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38390-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine.
 
The Kingdom of Rye unearths the foods and flavors of the Russian land. Preeminent food studies scholar Darra Goldstein offers readers a concise, engaging, and gorgeously crafted story of Russian cuisine and culture. This story demonstrates how national identity is revealed through food—and how people know who they are by what they eat together. The Kingdom of Rye examines the Russians' ingenuity in overcoming hunger, a difficult climate, and a history of political hardship while deciphering Russia's social structures from within. This is a domestic history of Russian food that serves up a deeper history, demonstrating that the wooden spoon is mightier than the scepter.
 

Inhalt

List of Illustrations
Preface

Introduction
1 The Land and Its Flavor
2 Hardship and Hunger
3 Hospitality and Excess
Coda: Post-Soviet Russia

Acknowledgments 
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.5.2022
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften
• Schlagworte: agricultural collectivization • agricultural history • famine • Fermentation • Food insecurity • grain cultivation • Hospitality Culture • peasant diet • Russian culinary culture • Russian food history • Russian Orthodox feasts • rye bread • Soviet era • Soviet Union • traditional foods • wheat harvest
• ISBN-10: 0-520-38390-7 / 0520383907
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-38390-6 / 9780520383906