Dzhomba: Kalmyk Tea: Poetry, Legends, History, and Recipes by Burlakoff, Nikolai

Dzhomba: Kalmyk Tea: Poetry, Legends, History, and Recipes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781505923995)

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Dzhomba: Kalmyk Tea: Poetry, Legends, History, and Recipes by Burlakoff, Nikolai

Dzhomba: Kalmyk Tea: Poetry, Legends, History, and Recipes

$19.98
Dzhomba: Kalmyk Tea: Poetry, Legends, History, and Recipes by Burlakoff, Nikolai

Dzhomba: Kalmyk Tea: Poetry, Legends, History, and Recipes

$19.98
Format: Paperback
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Dzhomba: Kalmyk Tea is a study of the central food dish in the life of the Kalmyk people--a Mongol ethnicity, living in Russia for over 400 years. It is a collection of ethnographic information, ritual practices, folkloric texts, poetry, culinary descriptions, literary commentary, historic, and explanatory information. Most of the literary texts are presented in English, Russian, and Kalmyk and explanatory material in English. Translations of poems are the work of different translators, many of whom are recognized poets in their own right. Two National Poets of the Republic of Kalmykia are contributors to the project. The book traces the evolution of Kalmyk tea (dzhomba) from an everyday food dish, connected to the Kalmyk conception of the sacred, to a drink that has become a marker of ethnicity, largely serving a symbolic and group-integrative function. The first known Western reactions to the tea by literary giants Alexander Pushkin and Alexandre Dumas, p re are part of the historic narrative. The book is a multi-year effort of an international team of scholars, poets, and translators.

Author: Nikolai Burlakoff
ISBN-10: 1505923999
ISBN-13: 9781505923995
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Language: English
Published: 03/03/2015
Pages: 160
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.34d
By Nikolai Burlakoff
By Nikolai Burlakoff
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Nikolai Burlakoff is a writer whose long-standing interest in cultural studies and cooking finds expression in this work devoted to a central dish of Kalmyk life-dzhomba, Kalmyk tea. His most recent book, The World of Russian Borsch (2013), was well-received by readers, culinary historians, and cookbook authors. An article, based on that work, is scheduled to be published by Oxford University Press, as part of a symposium collection. Previously, he has made contributions to the grassroots cookbook, Indy Cooks International, created and published by the Nationalities Council of Indiana, and, Foods of the Hudson: A Seasonal Sampling of the Region's Bounty, by Peter G. Rose. The author's previous foray into Kalmyk literary culture was marked by the publication of A Kalmyk Sampler: Mongol Poetry and Mythic Tale (2012). Currently Mr. Burlakoff lives with his wife and their two cats in Ossining, New York.

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