1st Edition

Food Culture and Politics in the Baltic States

Edited By Diana Mincyte, Ulrike Plath Copyright 2017
148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

148 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on food culture and politics in three Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. In popular and scholarly writings, the Baltic states are often seen as a meat-and-potatoes kind of place, inferior to sophisticated cuisines of the West and exotic diets in the East. Such views stem from the long intellectual tradition that focuses on political and cultural centers as... Read more




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    Biography

    Diana Mincyte is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in New York City College of Technology of the City University of New York. The recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, she publishes on social and environmental dimensions of agro-food systems both in and outside of post-socialist East Europe.



    Ulrike Plath is a Professor of German culture and history in the Baltic region at Tallinn University and a senior researcher at the Under and Tuglas Literature Centre of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. She has published in the areas of Baltic cultural history of the Enlightenment and Baltic foods, gardening, and environmental history.