Sourcing and Saving Food in Siberian Kitchens
Encompassing a wide range of landscapes and climate zones—Arctic tundra, high mountains, boreal forests, grassy steppes, lush wetlands—Siberia is home to a large number of wild edible flora and fauna, as well as certain cultivated crops and domestic animals. Based on the author's on-site resear...
| Published in: | Gastronomica |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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University of California Press
2019
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/gfc.2019.19.3.29 http://online.ucpress.edu/gastronomica/article-pdf/19/3/29/144395/gfc_2019_19_3_29.pdf |
| Summary: | Encompassing a wide range of landscapes and climate zones—Arctic tundra, high mountains, boreal forests, grassy steppes, lush wetlands—Siberia is home to a large number of wild edible flora and fauna, as well as certain cultivated crops and domestic animals. Based on the author's on-site research combined with her own culinary experiences when living in post-Soviet Siberia, this article describes the multiple influences on the food supply and taste preferences of Siberians; many of the wild foods available to Siberians for thousands of years; the challenges of food supplies and urban kitchens in early post-Soviet Siberia; traditional methods of food preservation among native and immigrant populations; summer kitchens; and the importance of dacha gardens to the food supply of Siberia. |
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