Recipes for Russia:food and nationhood under the tsars

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Smith Alison Karen
Published: Northern Illinois University Press,
Publisher Address: DeKalb
Publication Dates: c2008.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
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Carrier Form: x, 259 p.: ill. ; 24 cm.
ISBN: 9780875803814 (clothbound : alk. paper)
0875803814 (clothbound : alk. paper)
Index Number: R151
CLC: R151.4-151.2
R155.1-151.2
Call Number: R151.4-151.2/S642
Contents: Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-254) and index.
pt. 1. Authority and material concerns. -- Ensuring sustenance : the state and the starving peasant -- Making cabbage healthy : dietetics and public health as a national concern -- Describing the Russian diet : ethnography, history, and cultural definition -- pt. 2. Production and consumption from theory to practice. -- Searching for an authority : encyclopedists and the art of translation -- Who is responsible? : master chefs, gentlemen farmers, and progressive patriotism -- Audiences and authorities : Russian housewives and European gastronomes.