A01=Agata Bachorz
A01=Fabio Parasecoli
A01=Mateusz Halawa
artisanal food trends
Author_Agata Bachorz
Author_Fabio Parasecoli
Author_Mateusz Halawa
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culinary traditions
economic growth in Poland
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EU and Poland
European food differences
food and politics
food and society
food culture in Poland
food transformation
local food movements
Pierogi
Polish cuisine
Polish food
Polish food identity
Polish identity
post-socialist food
traditional Polish food
Product details
- ISBN 9780520399068
- Weight: 272g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 05 Aug 2025
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The culinary landscape of Poland is significantly changing, reshaped by a new generation of food producers, chefs, and media personalities. The Pierogi Problem examines people's networks, places, material culture, and media to explain how Polish tastemakers embrace context-specific strategies to localize discourses, practices, and values amid an increasingly globalized food culture. The decades following the end of Poland's socialist regime were marked by a rising interest in foreign cuisines and Western forms of consumption. Today, however, ingredients, cooking techniques, and dishes that were once considered ordinary or part of the country's uncomfortable past are being refashioned to reflect transformations in cultural hierarchies. The Pierogi Problem chronicles how and why local, traditional, and artisanal foods are reemerging for changing cosmopolitan appetites.
Fabio Parasecoli is Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. He is author of numerous books, including Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics.
Agata Bachórz is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Gdańsk, Poland.
Mateusz Halawa is an anthropologist and sociologist working between academic practice and design strategy.
Agata Bachórz is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Gdańsk, Poland.
Mateusz Halawa is an anthropologist and sociologist working between academic practice and design strategy.
