Twórcza siła niedostatku. Od sztuki gotowania do sztuki przetrwania
The Creative Force of Privation

Summary/Abstract: The article is about the situation of a creative crossing of limitations accompanying cooking. One can speak about the affiliation of shortage and creativity by using examples of daily kitchen tasks performed by mothers and grandmothers, although haute cuisine chefs too appreciated the force generated by privation. The text focuses also on borderline wartime events. In the case of famine and a struggle to keep alive the selflessness of creative cooking as well as the effort of documenting, in the form of recipes, fantasies about the past and cooking in the past proved to be a helpful instrument for surviving the most oppressive situation. The effectiveness of this strategy is confirmed vividly by the example of women from Ghetto Theresienstadt.

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