Food and Dining in Sacheverell Sitwell’s Roumanian Journey
Food and Dining in Sacheverell Sitwell’s Roumanian Journey

Summary/Abstract: The paper aims at identifying, through topoi like food and dining, cultural and identity codes in 1930s Romania, as reflected in a famous travelogue. The British poet and art critic Sacheverell Sitwell produced this very interesting book on Romania one year after his four-week travel in 1937. Some episodes and aspects will be approached in relation to the writings of another British traveller in the 1930s, Patrick Leigh Fermor, with whom Sacheverell Sitwell shared a deep intellectual friendship.

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