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Informationen zum Autor Melissa L. Caldwell is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is author of Not by Bread Alone: Social Support in the New Russia and editor (with James L. Watson) of The Cultural Politics of Food and Eating. Klappentext Changes in food production systems, consumption patterns, food safety, and ideas about health, well-being, nationalism, and history provide useful perspectives on the meaning of the postsocialist transition for those who lived through it. Zusammenfassung Food and social transformation in eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword / Marion Nestle Acknowledgments Introduction: Food and Everyday Life after State Socialism / Melissa L. Caldwell 1. From Canned Food to Canny Consumers: Cultural Competence in the Age of Mechanical Production / Yuson Jung 2. The Tale of the Toxic Paprika: The Hungarian Taste of Euro-Globalization / Zsuzsa Gille 3. Self-Made Women: Informal Dairy Markets in Europeanizing Lithuania / Diana Mincyte 4. Tempest in a Coffee Pot: Brewing Incivility in Russia's Public Sphere / Melissa L. Caldwell 5. The Geopolitics of Taste: The "Euro" and "Soviet" Sausage Industries in Lithuania / Neringa Klumbyte 6. A Celebration of Masterstvo: Professional Cooking, Culinary Art, and Cultural Production in Russia / Stas Shectman 7. The Social and Gendered Lives of Vodka in Rural Siberia / Katherine Metzo Afterword. Turnips and Mangos: Power and the Edible State in Eastern Europe / Elizabeth C. Dunn List of Contributors Index
