The Diversity in Cuisine Culture of the Immigrants from Bulgaria After 1989 Migration Cover Image

1989 göçü sonrası Bulgaristan göçmenlerinin yemek kültüründeki değişim
The Diversity in Cuisine Culture of the Immigrants from Bulgaria After 1989 Migration

Author(s): Cahit Kahraman, Ilhan Güneş, Nanae Kahraman
Subject(s): Politics / Political Sciences, Inter-Ethnic Relations, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Transnational Press London
Keywords: Bulgarian Turks; 1989 migration; cuisine culture; change; adaptation;

Summary/Abstract: The Cuisine culture that has been developing and getting rich day by day contemporaneously in the world before 1989 migration has also had an impact on Bulgarian Turks. By the increase in diversity in the market, eating habits have changed. While producing a limited number of food types with limited opportunities just some 30 or 40 years before the ‘Big Migration’, there has been a rapid progress in food culture by the help of the increase in purchase power. Enhancing product range has been reflected in food, and different tastes have entered the cuisines. When we say immigrant, the first things that come to our mind are pastry, flan and pitta bread. Moreover, it is also known that immigrants have a very rich cuisine culture of pickle, stewed fruit, and canned food. This study aims both to disclose the eating habits of Turks living in different regions of Bulgaria before 1989 and to determine whether there has been a difference in immigrant cuisine culture before and after the migration. For this purpose, a questionnaire consisting of 8 questions has been administered to 50 people who migrated to Turkey in 1989. The results gathered from these data have been compiled and new determinations have been made. In addition, immigrants that settled in different regions of Turkey have set their own immigrant markets. The fact that the products brought from Bulgaria are being sold in these markets shows that this kind of supply and demand still continues

  • Issue Year: 4/2017
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 227-245
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Turkish