Oral Practices for Sharing Recipes
Oral Practices for Sharing Recipes

Summary/Abstract: This paper analyzes the oral practices of recipe transmission that were the subject of field studies we carried out in the period 2016–2021, as part of food heritage recording projects in different areas of Romania. The researchers and participants were involved in the preparation of a recipe, which formed the basis for a semi-structured interview about the food inherited from the family. Thus, these are both oral practices of passing on recipes prepared under the researcher’s eyes and passing on recipes from memory. A qualitative research approach was adopted, combining the interview with participant observation in the theoretical context of sensory ethnology. This approach allowed us to characterize the practices of oral transmission of the recipes we documented.

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