The Tastes of Home: Cooking the Lost Heimat in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s

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Abstract

The intense interest in cooking and eating that helped to define the first two postwar decades of the Federal Republic were not, as has often been claimed, a move away from the political sphere. Instead, this culinary discourse directly engaged with some of the most controversial issues of the day: the relationship between the German past and the German present, the validity of the Oder-Nei�e border, the cultural definition of the German nation, and the integration of ethnic German expellees from Eastern Europe into West Germany.
Original languageAmerican English
JournalGerman Studies Review
Volume34
Issue number2
StatePublished - May 2011

Disciplines

  • History
  • European History

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