The Pierogi Problem: Cosmopolitan Appetites and the Reinvention of Polish Food Volume 86 (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780520399068)

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.


Author: Fabio Parasecoli, Agata Bachórz, Mateusz Halawa
ISBN-10: 0520399064
ISBN-13: 9780520399068
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 08/05/2025
Pages: 260
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.80w x 0.80d