Where They Cook Well, They Prosper: Contemporary Consumption Customs in Sklepná Village Where They Cook Well, They Prosper: Contemporary Consumption Customs in Sklepná Village
Abstract
This study examines the topic of food and the processes of its production, preparation and consumption in the ethnically mixed environment of Sklepná village (Slovakia). Using the example of consumption habits, this presentation is centrally focused on the production of locality and local cuisine under the impacts of global cuisine and the deteritorialization of food.
Contemporary Sklepná cuisine is characterised by two main sources of different foods. The first group is often grown by traditional means on local fields and gardens whereas the second group is obtained through shopping.
Moreover, these two different sources of food distinguish different approaches to individual cooking on an everyday level. This presentation consists of stories portraying individual strategies around food consumption within three major discourses that negotiate the forms of contemporary local cooking.
The first discourse is concerned with traditional local cuisine, the second one focuses on local reinterpretation and reproduction of globality and the third depicts the dialectics between locality and the nation-state.