Ingredients of Change – The History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria

Ingredients of ChangeThe History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria\nAuthor(s): Mary C. Neuburger\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9781501762499, 978-1501762499\nSynopsis\nIngredients of Change explores modern Bulgaria's foodways from the Ottoman era to the present, outlining how Bulgarians domesticated and adapted diverse local, regional, and global foods and techniques, and how the nation's culinary topography has been continually reshaped by the imperial legacies of the Ottomans, Habsburgs, Russians, and Soviets, as well as by the ingenuity of its own people. Changes in Bulgarian cooking and cuisine, Mary C. Neuburger shows, were driven less by nationalism than by the circulation of powerful food narrativesscientific, religious, and ethicalalong with peoples, goods, technologies, and politics. \n\n Ingredients of Change tells this complex story through thematic chapters focused on bread, meat, mi.