Recipes for Russia : Food and Nationhood under the Tsars /

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"This fascinating history examines changing attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs about the production and consumption of food in Russia from the late eighteenth century through the mid nineteenth. While Smith looks at food as part of Russian culture, she also connects it with the social, legal, an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Smith, Alison Karen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: DeKalb : Northern Illinois University Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Nationenbildung
Lebensmittelangebot
Food supply > Government policy.
Food habits.
Diet.
Food habits > Russia > History.
Food supply > Government policy > Russia > History.
Diet > Russia.
Russland.
Russia.
Cookbooks.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Authority and material concerns.
  • Ensuring sustenance : the state and the starving peasant
  • Making cabbage healthy : dietetics and public health as a national concern
  • Describing the Russian diet : ethnography, history, and cultural definition
  • pt. 2. Production and consumption from theory to practice.
  • Searching for an authority : encyclopedists and the art of translation
  • Who is responsible? : master chefs, gentlemen farmers, and progressive patriotism
  • Audiences and authorities : Russian housewives and European gastronomes.

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