The Emergence of National Food: The Dynamics of Food and Nationalism
What do deep fried mars bars, cod, and Bulgarian yoghurt have in common? Each have become symbolic foods with specific connotations, located to a very specific place and country.

This book explores the role of food in society as a means of interrogating the concept of the nation-state and its sub-units, and reveals how the nation-state in its various disguises has been and is changing in response to accelerated globalisation. The chapters investigate various stages of national food: its birth, emergence, and decline, and why sometimes no national food emerges. By collecting and analysing a wide range of case studies from countries including Portugal, Mexico, the USA, Bulgaria, Scotland, and Israel, the book illustrates ways in which various social forces work together to shape social and political realities concerning food.

The contributors, hailing from anthropology, history, sociology and political science, investigate the significance of specific food cultures, cuisines, dishes, and ingredients, and their association with national identity. In so doing, it becomes clearer how these two things interact, and demonstrates the scope and direction of the current study of food and nationalism.

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The Emergence of National Food: The Dynamics of Food and Nationalism
What do deep fried mars bars, cod, and Bulgarian yoghurt have in common? Each have become symbolic foods with specific connotations, located to a very specific place and country.

This book explores the role of food in society as a means of interrogating the concept of the nation-state and its sub-units, and reveals how the nation-state in its various disguises has been and is changing in response to accelerated globalisation. The chapters investigate various stages of national food: its birth, emergence, and decline, and why sometimes no national food emerges. By collecting and analysing a wide range of case studies from countries including Portugal, Mexico, the USA, Bulgaria, Scotland, and Israel, the book illustrates ways in which various social forces work together to shape social and political realities concerning food.

The contributors, hailing from anthropology, history, sociology and political science, investigate the significance of specific food cultures, cuisines, dishes, and ingredients, and their association with national identity. In so doing, it becomes clearer how these two things interact, and demonstrates the scope and direction of the current study of food and nationalism.

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The Emergence of National Food: The Dynamics of Food and Nationalism

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The Emergence of National Food: The Dynamics of Food and Nationalism

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What do deep fried mars bars, cod, and Bulgarian yoghurt have in common? Each have become symbolic foods with specific connotations, located to a very specific place and country.

This book explores the role of food in society as a means of interrogating the concept of the nation-state and its sub-units, and reveals how the nation-state in its various disguises has been and is changing in response to accelerated globalisation. The chapters investigate various stages of national food: its birth, emergence, and decline, and why sometimes no national food emerges. By collecting and analysing a wide range of case studies from countries including Portugal, Mexico, the USA, Bulgaria, Scotland, and Israel, the book illustrates ways in which various social forces work together to shape social and political realities concerning food.

The contributors, hailing from anthropology, history, sociology and political science, investigate the significance of specific food cultures, cuisines, dishes, and ingredients, and their association with national identity. In so doing, it becomes clearer how these two things interact, and demonstrates the scope and direction of the current study of food and nationalism.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350074132
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 02/21/2019
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.56(d)

About the Author

Atsuko Ichijo is Associate Professor of Politics at Kingston University, UK.
Ronald Ranta is Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Kingston University, UK.
Venetia Johannes is Postdoctoral Research Associate at Oxford University, UK.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors vii

Introduction Atsuko Ichijo Venetia Johannes Ronald Ranta 1

Part 1 The "Template": The "Orthodox" Emergence and Development of National Food

1 Salt Cod and the Making of a Portuguese National Cuisine José M. Sobral 17

2 The Cookbook in Mexico: A Founding Document of the Modern Nation Sarah Bak-Geller Corona 28

3 Potica: The Leavened Bread that Reinvented Slovenia Andreja Vezovnik Ana Tominc 39

4 Bacillus Bulgaricus: The Breeding of National Pride Nevena Nancheva 51

5 Food and Nationalism in an Independent Ghana Brandi Simpson Miller 61

Part 2 Contemporary Accounts of the Emergence and Development of National Food

6 Signifying Poverty, Class, and Nation through Scottish Foods: From Haggis to Deep-Fried Mars Bars Joy Fraser Christine Knight 73

7 Catalan Culinary Nationalism: A Contemporary Case Study Venetia Johannes 85

8 National Cuisine and Regional Identities in Costa Rica Mona Nikolic 96

9 Ethnicity, Class, and Nation in the Chilean Cuisine Isabel M. Aguilera Bornand 107

Part 3 Critical Accounts of National Food

10 Does Israeli Food Exist? The Multifaceted and Complex Making of a National Food Ronald Ranta Claudia Raquel Prieto-Piastro 119

11 Obliterating or Reviving the Nonexisting Nation Liora Gvion 130

12 Nationalism, Culinary Coherence, and the Case of the United States: An Empirical or Conceptual Problem? Amy B. Trubek 142

13 The Canadian Cuisine Fallacy Nicolas Fabien-Ouellet 151

14 "They're Always Eating Cuy": Food Regionalism and Transnationalism in Ecuador and the Andes Emma-Jayne Abbots 164

Conclusion Atsuko Ichijo Venetia Johannes Ronald Ranta 175

References 181

Index 204

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