The Pierogi Problem (eBook)

Cosmopolitan Appetites and the Reinvention of Polish Food

Fabio Parasecoli, Agata Bachórz, Mateusz Halawa (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
260 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39907-5 (ISBN)

Infos

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.
 

Inhalt

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
 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.8.2025
• Reihe/Serie: California Studies in Food and Culture
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Länderküchen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Essen / Trinken ► Themenkochbücher
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: artisanal food trends • culinary traditions • economic growth in Poland • EU and Poland • European food differences • food and politics • Food and Society • food culture in Poland • Food Transformation • local food movements • Pierogi • Polish cuisine • Polish food • Polish food identity • polish identity • post-socialist food • traditional Polish food
• ISBN-10: 0-520-39907-2 / 0520399072
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-39907-5 / 9780520399075