The Making of Mămăligă

Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish

Alex Drace-Francis (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

226 Seiten

2022
Central European University Press (Verlag)
978-963-386-583-5 (ISBN)

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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, and also the image of mămăligă in art and popular culture. Drawing on a rich array of sources and with many new findings, Drace-Francis shows how the making of mămăligă has been shaped by global economic forces and overlapping imperial systems of war and trade.

The story of maize and mămăligă provides an accessible way to revisit many key questions of Romanian and broader regional history. More generally, the book links the history of production, consumption, and representation. Analyses of recipes, literary and popular depictions, and key vocabulary complete the work.

Alex Drace-Francis is Associate Professor of Modern European Cultural History at the University of Amsterdam.

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. 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, 1821-1856

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 day of rest’: Mămăligă as Metaphor

Conclusion: The Land is Waiting

Appendix: Words and Things

Glossary

Mămăligography

Illustration Credits

Acknowledgements

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.09.2022
Zusatzinfo	8 Maps; 2 Tables, black and white; 2 Charts; 20 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	Budapest
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	474 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	963-386-583-2 / 9633865832
ISBN-13	978-963-386-583-5 / 9789633865835
Zustand	Neuware