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The making of mămăligă : transimperial recipes for a Romanian national dish /
"Mămăligă, maize porridge or polenta, is a universally consumed dish in Romania and a prominent national symbol. But its unusual history has rarely been told. Alex Drace-Francis surveys the arrival and spread of maize cultivation in Romanian lands from Ottoman times to the eve of the First W...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Budapest, Hungary ; New York :
Central European University Press,
2022.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Maps, Graphs, Tables
- Introduction: The Land is Waiting
- Chapter 1. From the Caribbean to the Carpathians: The Coming of Cucuruz, c.1492-1700
- Chapter 2. Conquerors, Cultivators and Collaborators: Maize at Empire's Edge, 1700-1774
- Chapter 3. Climate, Conflict, Contagion and Commerce: The Triumph of Maize, 1774-1812
- Chapter 4. Maize, Raki or Death: The Revolt of 1821 Reconsidered
- Chapter 5. Mămăligă 2.0: Maize on the World Market, 1829-1856
- Chapter 6. Independence, Capitalism, Disease and Revolt; Or, Why the Mămăligă Exploded, 1856-1907
- Chapter 7. Manna valachorum: Recipes at the Interface
- Chapter 8. 'The sparrow dreams of cornmeal, and the idle man of a feast day': Mămăligă as Metaphor
- Conclusion: The Land is Waiting
- Appendix: Words and Things
- Glossary
- Mămăligography
- Illustration Credits
- Acknowledgements
- Index