The Pierogi Problem: Cosmopolitan Appetites and the Reinvention of Polish Food
Fabio Parasecoli · Agata Bachórz · Mateusz Halawa
Aug 2025 · California Studies in Food and Culture Book 86 · Univ of California Press
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About this ebook
The culinary landscape of Poland is significantly changing, reshaped by a new generation of food producers, chefs, and media personalities. The Pierogi Problem examines people's networks, places, material culture, and media to explain how Polish tastemakers embrace context-specific strategies to localize discourses, practices, and values amid an increasingly globalized food culture. The decades following the end of Poland's socialist regime were marked by a rising interest in foreign cuisines and Western forms of consumption. Today, however, ingredients, cooking techniques, and dishes that were once considered ordinary or part of the country's uncomfortable past are being refashioned to reflect transformations in cultural hierarchies. The Pierogi Problem chronicles how and why local, traditional, and artisanal foods are reemerging for changing cosmopolitan appetites.
About the author
Fabio Parasecoli is Professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Studies at New York University. He is author of numerous books, including Gastronativism: Food, Identity, Politics. Agata Bachórz is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Gdańsk, Poland. Mateusz Halawa is an anthropologist and sociologist working between academic practice and design strategy.
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