Food Culture and Politics in the Baltic States

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Diana Mincyte (Department of Social Science, New York City College of New York, City University of New York) Ulrike Plath (School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia)

Food Culture and Politics in the Baltic States

Diana Mincyte (Department of Social Science, New York City College of New York, City University of New York), Ulrike Plath (School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia)

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Routledge
14 August 2020

Food & society; Food & beverage technology

This book focuses on food culture and politics in three Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In popular and scholarly writings, the Baltic states are often seen as a meat-and-potatoes kind of place, inferior to sophisticated cuisines of the West and exotic diets in the East. Such views stem from the long intellectual tradition that focuses on political and cultural centers as sources of progress. But, as a new generation of writers has argued, in order to fully grasp the ongoing cultural and political changes, we need to shift the focus from capital cities such as Paris, Berlin, Rome, or Moscow to everyday life in borderland regions that are primary arenas where such transformations unfold. Building on this perspective, chapters featured in this book examine how identities were negotiated through the implementation of new food laws, how tastes were reinvented during imperial encounters, and how ethnic and class boundaries were both maintained and transgressed in Baltic kitchens over the course of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. In so doing, the book not only explores culinary practices across the region, but also offers a new vantage point for understanding everyday life and the entanglement between nature and culture in modern Europe. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Baltic Studies.

Edited by: Diana Mincyte (Department of Social Science New York City College of New York City University of New York), Ulrike Plath (School of Humanities, Tallinn University, Estonia)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 246mm, Width: 174mm,
Weight: 272g
ISBN: 9780367595128
ISBN 10: 0367595125
Pages: 136
Publication Date: 14 August 2020
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Diana Mincyte is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York. The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, she publishes on social and environmental dimensions of agro-food systems both in and outside of post-socialist East Europe. Ulrike Plath is a Professor of German culture and history in the Baltic region at Tallinn University and a senior researcher at the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. She has published in the areas of Baltic cultural history of the Enlightenment and Baltic foods, gardening, and environmental history.