The Making of Mămăligă
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The Making of Mămăligă

Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish

  1. 220 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Making of Mămăligă

Transimperial Recipes for a Romanian National Dish

About this book

M?m?lig?, maize porridge or polenta, is a universally consumed dish in Romania and a prominent national symbol. But its unusual history has rarely been told. Alex Drace-Francis surveys the arrival and spread of maize cultivation in Romanian lands from Ottoman times to the eve of the First World War, and also the image of m?m?lig? in art and popular culture. Drawing on a rich array of sources and with many new findings, Drace-Francis shows how the making of m?m?lig? has been shaped by global economic forces and overlapping imperial systems of war and trade.

The story of maize and m?m?lig? provides an accessible way to revisit many key questions of Romanian and broader regional history. More generally, the book links the history of production, consumption, and representation. Analyses of recipes, literary and popular depictions, and key vocabulary complete the work.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Front matter
  3. Contents
  4. List of Maps, Graphs, Tables
  5. Introduction: The Land is Waiting
  6. Chapter 1: From the Caribbean to the Carpathians: The Coming of Cucuruz, c. 1492–1700
  7. Chapter 2: Conquerors, Cultivators and Collaborators: Maize at Empire’s Edge, 1700–1774
  8. Chapter 3: Climate, Conflict, Contagion and Commerce: The Triumph of Maize, 1774–1812
  9. Chapter 4: Maize, Raki or Death: The Revolt of 1821 Reconsidered
  10. Chapter 5: Mămăligă 2.0: Maize on the World Market, 1829–1856
  11. Chapter 6: Independence, Capitalism, Disease and Revolt; Or, Why the Mămăligă exploded, 1856–1907
  12. Chapter 7: Manna valachorum – Recipes at the Interface
  13. Chapter 8: ‘The sparrow dreams of cornmeal, and the idle man of a feast day’: Mămăligă as Metaphor
  14. Conclusion: The Land is Waiting
  15. Appendix: Words and Things
  16. Glossary
  17. Mămăligography
  18. Illustration Credits
  19. Acknowledgements
  20. Index
  21. back cover