Pentru o poetică a imaginarului (II). Bucătăria şi bucatele basmului fantastic românesc
Towards a Poetics of the Imaginary: Traditional Cuisine in Romanian Fantastic Tales

Summary/Abstract: : Since cuisine is a vehicle for the core values of any society, the true foundation of identity and alterity, it is not surprising to find it in many Romanian fantastic tales. In the present paper we focus on some of the most representative elements of traditional cuisine in our tales and discuss the relationship between their textual representations or manifestations and their social, ideological, and cultural contexts in order to identify possible frameworks / or schemes in which they are placed and determine to what extent one can speak of adaptations to new gastronomic socio-cultural realities. It appears that the gastronomic praxis in our Romanian fantastic tales points to significant ethnological features.

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