Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781350132306
Subjects: Home economics
Description: "Albena Shkodrova shows how many women in communist Bulgaria passionately exchanged recipes to build substantial private collections, a borderline contraband activity under a regime where home cooking was considered household slavery and an agent of patriarchalism. Drawing on primary sources, including scrapbook cookbooks, and working from the establishment of cookery classes before communism to their obliteration thereafter, Shkodrova highlights the meaning behind recipe exchange and home cooking for Bulgarian women under the communist regime"--