The Pierogi Problem

Cosmopolitan Appetites and the Reinvention of Polish Food

Fabio Parasecoli, Agata Bachórz, Mateusz Halawa (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

260 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39905-1 (ISBN)

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The culinary landscape of Poland is significantly changing, reshaped by a new generation of food producers, chefs, and media personalities. The Pierogi Problem examines people's networks, places, material culture, and media to explain how Polish tastemakers embrace context-specific strategies to localize discourses, practices, and values amid an increasingly globalized food culture. The decades following the end of Poland's socialist regime were marked by a rising interest in foreign cuisines and Western forms of consumption. Today, however, ingredients, cooking techniques, and dishes that were once considered ordinary or part of the country's uncomfortable past are being refashioned to reflect transformations in cultural hierarchies. The Pierogi Problem chronicles how and why local, traditional, and artisanal foods are reemerging for changing cosmopolitan appetites.

Fabio Parasecoli is Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. He is author of numerous books, including Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics. Agata Bachórz is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Gdańsk, Poland. Mateusz Halawa is an anthropologist and sociologist working between academic practice and design strategy.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1 • Poland and Its Food in History
2 • The Social Life of Polish Food
3 • People
4 • Place
5 • Time
6 • Materiality
Conclusions

Appendix. Exploring Food in Poland: Literature and Autoethnographic Reflections
Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	California Studies in Food and Culture ; 86
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-39905-6 / 0520399056
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39905-1 / 9780520399051
Zustand	Neuware