Spotkanie w garnku — typy kontaktu kultur kulinarnych
Melting Pot of Encounters — Different Ways in Which Culinary Cultures Meet

Summary/Abstract: (Upper) Silesian cuisine is the research field where the mutual permeability of the culinary cultures is demonstrated. The typology of basic analytical concepts opposing popular practices to the official normative cuisine. Culinary practice is reduced to the triadic structure composed of (a) ingredients, (b) procedures and (c) functions in the wider context of a meal. Cultural marking might be proved for each of these elements. As the departure the officially recognized elements of Silesian cuisine had been chosen that appear however also in the other cuisines. Nevertheless the specific seems rather the general structure of the festive dinner that is perceived in the area as distinctively Silesian. This is however more regional/ethnic distinctiveness than purely culinary one.

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