The country of Poland historically experienced a variety of dependency on countries that conquered them. As the nation struggled for independence, the traditional culture and foods adapted influence on the other controlling nations. Through history, Poland was overtaken by a variety of countries which influenced the culture and food traditions. Poland independence was significant re-established much like how the modern student and government restriction change the economy in America today. “College students’ ideas about food are embedded in the value system of U.S. society. Unlike noncapitalist societies where food exchanges reduce social distance and solidify relationships” (Counihan 113) The influence of war and economic status change of …show more content…
Along with these rebellions, in the year of 1655, the Swedes invaded Poland, as the Turks ruled Southeast Europe. Then in 1673 a Pole named Jan Sobieski was elected king, bringing us to the large change of territory in the 18th century. “The Poles have not declared war against anybody, and yet three-fourths of the burden of the war have fallen upon them and their country.”(Hausner 3) The Russian, Prussian and Austrian great powers decided to help themselves to Polish territory. The Poles quickly rebelled again in 1863, bring the country into the 19th century, when the Poles formed political movements, including the Nationalist League, the Christian Democrats, and the Polish Socialist …show more content…
Preservation is important due to the cold weather, the food had to be stored for three to four month period to supply food for the nation. “...in the processes of rural changes in Poland...rather relatively ambivalent effects of such policies in the process of overcoming of historically established socio-economic discrepancies among various regions in Poland.” (Gorlach; Klekotko; Nowak 17) The most commonly stored foods were peas, broad bean, kohlrabi, and turnip. In the forests, sylvan fruits were gathered such as wild strawberries, blueberries, currants, raspberries, wild black raspberries, and even wild mushrooms. On the coast of the Baltic Sea, herring, codfish, dory pollack, sprat and sole were commonly used in Polish platters. With all the common foods came a variety of religious fasting and processing of such ingredients within the Polish cuisine. Historically, the first known fasting time was brought out upon the rule of King Boleslaw I the Brave (967-1025). He ordered to knock out teeth of those who didn't refrain oneself from eating meat on fast days. Although many of the same fasting times still exist modernly, it is not as intensive as the previous punishments on neglecting the fast. In present day Poland, many citizens continue to practice fasting on Fridays, holidays eves and additionally three times for the quarter in so-called 'dry days'
In Document 2: Life in the Warsaw Ghetto stated that “…its inhabitants were forced to live on 180 grams of bread a day, 220 grams of sugar a month, 1 kg. of jam and 1 kg of honey, etc.” Also in Document 5: Ghetto Ration Card, it shows a picture of a card that were given to all people of the Ghetto which acted as a tracker for the 300 calories intake allowed daily. The restricted diet that they were forced to live upon were inhumane. In Document 4: Discriminaory Decrees Against the Jews it is said that “Jews were…denied access to certain city areas, sidewalks, transportation, places of amusement [and] restaurants.”
The production of agricultural food, the rise of the irrigation systems, and the communal food storage fostered political centralization with agricultural fertility rituals developing into state religions and food becoming a medium of taxation and payment; feasts were used in garnering influence and to show status. Food handouts were used in defining and refining power structures. As Tom Standage is thorough in pointing out, before money was invented in the earlier world ,food was the main symbol of wealth. The ability to control food was power.
For breakfast they were served black coffee. For lunch they were served a bowl of soup. For dinner they were served a piece of bread. This is what they ate everyday while they were in the camps. One Sunday there was an air-raid. Near the kitchen 2 cauldrons of soup had been left, half full. “Two cauldrons of soup, right in the middle of the path, with no on guarding them! A feast for kings, abandoned, supreme temptation. Hundreds of eye looked at them, sparkling with desire….But who would dare?” (Wiesel 43). They were all tempted by the food that was left unguarded. Only one dared go near it. When he did the SS shot him. In chapter 7 Elie discusses wagon ride that lasted 10 days and 10 nights. “One day when we had stopped, a workman took a piece of bread out of his bag and threw it into the wagon….Dozens of starving men fought each other to the death for a few crumbs. The German workmen took a lively interest in this spectacle.”
Regarding my family heritage, a large part of my food identity is Polish food. My great grandparents on my dad’s side immigrated from Poland in the early 1900s. When they came to the United States, they
In the morning we got metal cups and spoons. We were each given two slices of bread and sometimes a pat of margarine or a little bit of marmalade. The coffee was toasted acorns ground up. It tasted terrible. The midday meal was potato soup with maybe a li ttle bit of meat. Potatoes were the main ingredient and the kind of beets you normally feed to cattle. We were already hungry in the Theresienstadt ghetto because we did not get enough to eat. In Auschwitz we were beginning to starve. In the evening we go t another slice of bread, some coffee, no marmalade, no butter, no nothing.
There has been times when the Jews are denied food for several days, for many reasons such as when they are
A meal time was one of the most important times of the day, for a prisoner. In the morning, a prisoner would be fed coffee or herbal tea. The Holocaust Explained states “For lunch prisoners would be given a litre of watery soup. If they were lucky, they might find a piece of turnip or potato peel.” (The Holocaust Explained.org 2014). For dinner, black bread, a tiny piece of sausage, and cheese. The black bread was supposed to be able to last prisoners throughout the night, and into the morning. Because of the bread’s durability, many prisoners secretly hid and stashed amounts of black bread to eat. In camps like Belzec, food was placed on a high value within the life of the prisoners, making reason for them to smuggle and steal it. But because of the constant work, brutality, and small portions of food that were given to the prisoners, many died and suffered from sickness caused by hunger. Through this, weight and muscle tissue were barely left on the bodies of the prisoners, with the lack of food and
Even with the flawed nature of their ambition, there are positive affects. “For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name), Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked of bloody execution, like valor's minion, carved out his pass till he faced the slave”(Act 1 Sc. 2 18-22).The introduction of the future King Macbeth invokes a gallant impression of a character that has not been introduced yet. King Duncan is told of his soldiers brave deeds on the battlefield, and how Macbeth did justice in the name of Duncan. From the perspective of these characters, the fact that his sword “smoked of bloody execution” symbolizes the honor a soldier may acquire through his victories on the battlefield. The introduction of Macbeth as a warrior
Sveiki! Lithuanian culture is a very interesting culture, they have very different lives then we do in the United States of America. I choose Lithuania because my dad’s father was from there. The cultural practices aren’t very different than those of the U.S.A. they have dancing and similar foods. The climate and geography is similar to Alaska but not very similar to anywhere else in the United States.
While in the camps theses two men faced some of the same horrific and disgusting experiences. They both talked about the lack of food as there is mentioning of them eating only soup and bread. Although at one point a kapo who liked Vladek gave him a present of things like sausages and eggs. But as stated in both books there was a widespread famine throughout most of the camps and the need for food incited violence.Also food was able to be traded for favors or sometimes other items like
The people barely get to eat. “Eliezer and his fellow captives are forced to live in squalid barracks; they are fed only bread, water, and tasteless broth.” “The train with the deportees had crossed the Hungarian border and, once in Polish territory, had been taken over by the Gestapo.” “As the train passes through towns, people throw bread into the open cars, then watch as the prisoners beat and kill each other for food. (Wiesel).”
In the allegory of the cave Plato tries to show us two scenarios where the prisoners experience emotional and intellectual revelations throughout their lives. Plato’s theory was that the ones who truly understand knowledge should guide the ignorant people out of their unenlightened states of being and into true knowledge. The cave symbolizes the people who think that knowledge come from what they see and hear in the world. It also indicates people that make assumptions about life based on the substantial things they experience through hearing and seeing. Plato’s main focus was to convey a story to the world about the difference between beliefs and truth. Anyone can believe in something they see, but that belief is really just a shadow of the truth.
During the first week of class, four readings were assigned. One of the readings, “Food and Eating: Some Persisting Questions,” by Sidney Mintz, discusses the paradoxes of food. Although food seems like a straightforward concept, it is actually extremely complicated. According to Mintz, there are five paradoxes, including: the importance of food to one’s survival, yet we take it for granted, how people stick to their foodways, but are willing to change, whether the government should allow people to freely choose food or if they should protect the people through regulations, the difference in food meanings according to gender, and the morality of eating certain foods. All of these paradoxes give people questions to think about, making this an extremely philosophical look at food studies. It also mentions that food must be viewed through the cultural context that it is in, which became important in “The Old and New World Exchange”, by Mintz, and “Maize as a Culinary Mystery”, by Stanley Brandes. These discuss the diffusion of foods after 1492 in different ways. The Mintz reading gives an overview of all of the foods spread from the Americas to the Old World, and vice-a-versa, but does not go terribly in depth on the social changes and effects of specific foods. Brandes focuses on the cultural impact of specifically maize on the European diet, noticing that most Western Europeans shunned it. He studies the cultural implications of this, concluding that maize was not accepted
This essay is going to describe how the society has an influence on food choice. Food is very important to the human body since it has the right nutrients for a balanced diet in order to enable good health and growth. However people depend on food, as people need food throughout, for the body to constantly work. However this essay is going to explore how food choice has influenced the internal and external factors that may actually have a little to do with the food itself, and in order to give a clear concept this essay will therefore explore the social factors of what one has to eat.
“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says, “It’s a girl.” – U.S. Representative Shirley Chisholm. Scores fail to differentiate the meaning of sex and gender and how the two realities not only shape our personal lives but also shape our higher level ambitions, motivations, and socio-political and economic structure. Sex, in the biological context, refers to the physiological attributes found in those of male or female distinction. The more ambiguous question is what exactly gender is and how does it pertain to peace, security, and conflict. The APA (American Psychological Association) defines gender as “the attitudes, feelings, and behaviors that a given culture associates with a person’s biological