Making of Mamaliga

Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish

AvAlex Drace-Francis,Alex Drace-Francis

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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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 World War, and also the image of mămăligă in art and popular culture. Drawing on a rich array of sources and with many new findings, Drace-Francis shows how the making of mămăligă has been shaped by global economic forces and overlapping imperial systems of war and trade. The story of maize and mămăligă provides an accessible way to revisit many key questions of Romanian and broader regional history. More generally, the book links the history of production, consumption, and representation. Analyses of recipes, literary and popular depictions, and key vocabulary complete the work.

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Utgivningsdatum:2022-09-15
Mått:152 x 229 x 21 mm
Vikt:580 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:226
Förlag:Central European University Press
ISBN:9789633865835

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Alex Drace-Francis is Associate Professor of Modern European Literary and Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Romanian and Balkan social, cultural and literary history; on travel writing and circulation of ideas and images; and on European identity as a whole.

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"This is not only a masterfully written account of Romanian modernity seen from a 'mămăligocentric perspective,' but also a thorough analysis of the interrelations between gastronomy, politics, economics, national identities, and social perceptions."https://www.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/10.3828/jrns.2023.6

Innehållsförteckning

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. 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, 1821-1856 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 day of rest': mămăligă as Metaphor Conclusion: The Land is Waiting Appendix: Words and Things Glossary, Illustration, Credits, Acknowledgements, Index.