SIPPING FOREIGN TASTES: TRAVELLERS’ ACCOUNTS ABOUT BEVERAGES ENCOUNTERED IN THE ROMANIAN PRINCIPALITIES IN THE XVIITH TO THE XIXTH CENTURIES
SIPPING FOREIGN TASTES: TRAVELLERS’ ACCOUNTS ABOUT BEVERAGES ENCOUNTERED IN THE ROMANIAN PRINCIPALITIES IN THE XVIITH TO THE XIXTH CENTURIES

SIPPING FOREIGN TASTES: TRAVELLERS’ ACCOUNTS ABOUT BEVERAGES ENCOUNTERED IN THE ROMANIAN PRINCIPALITIES IN THE XVIITH TO THE XIXTH CENTURIES

Summary/Abstract: The article focuses on the encounter with the Other from the perspective of the consumeddrinks in the Romanian Principalities in the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Internationalbeverages—such as coffee, wine, or spirits—gain distinctive iconic meanings in association to thelocal spatiality, according to their use in private or public spaces. They are charged with cultural,religious, and economic implications and become polymorphous markers of taste. The analysis relieson criticism in mentalities, food studies, spatial studies, semiotics of food and drinks, and reveals theplurivalent connections established between taste and a space matrix which reunites and transfiguresOriental and Occidental influences.

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