Treść książki
Przejdź do opcji czytnikaPrzejdź do nawigacjiPrzejdź do informacjiPrzejdź do stopki
Introduction
Thegrowthoffoodstudiesintherecentyearsisafactthatishardtodenied.
Thequantityandqualityofpublicationsisincreasingyearbyyear.Itisnot
possibletobringtheexactfiguresbutamongmostfrequentlyresearchedcui-
sinesareFrench,Italian,Scandinavian,Asian(especiallyJapaneseandThai).
However
,thereisonefieldthatseemstobeleftoutandthatisfoodofuCentral
Europe”,understoodasAustria,Belarus,BosniaandHerzegovina,Bulgaria,
Croatia,Czech,Estonia,Germany,Hungary,Latvia,Lithuania,Moldova,Monte-
negro,Poland,Romania,Russia,Serbia,Slovakia,SloveniaandUkraine.Looking
atthelistonecouldargueits’geographicalandpoliticalcoherence.Butthose
aremerelyboundariesthatincludecountriesnormallyleftoffwhenitcomes
tofoodstudies.
TheorderofFoodinCentralEurope:Past-Present-Memoryisnotonlypres-
entCentralEuropeancuisinesoutsidebutalsotoriseawarenessofcounties
ownculinarycultures.Itisanopportunitytobringthescholarstogetheras
theyinmanycasesfoodstudiesintheirhomelandsarestillunderdevelop-
ment.Bypublishingtheirresearch,theywillbecomeapartofthecommunity
thatwehopethatwilldevelopuponit.Thatitwillhelpestablishlongterm
cooperationbetweenresearchers,specialistsandinstitutions.Wehopethat
thiswewillputthefoundationforcreatinginterdisciplinarydiscourseonthe
foodstudiesinthisregion.Anditwillincreaseleveloffoodcultureawareness
insidepresentedcountries.Ifevensmallportionofthosegoalswouldbeac-
complishedwiththispublicationinthefutureCentralEuropewouldbecome
aspotonfoodstudiesmap.
AleksandraDrzał-Sierocka
MagdalenaTomaszewska-Bolałek
7