The Making of Mămăligă : : Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish /

The Making of Mămăligă : : Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish / / Alex Drace-Francis.

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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,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Central European University Press eBook-Package 2022
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Drace-Francis, Alex,
Place / Publishing House:Budapest ;, New York : : Central European University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (226 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • 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. Climate, 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, 1829–1856
  • 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 feast day’: Mămăligă as Metaphor
  • Conclusion: The Land is Waiting
  • Appendix: Words and Things
  • Glossary
  • Mămăligography
  • Illustration Credits
  • Acknowledgements
  • Index

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