Article
The Tastes of Home: Cooking the Lost Heimat in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s
German Studies Review
(2011)
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.
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Publication Date
May, 2011
Citation Information
Alice A. Weinreb. "The Tastes of Home: Cooking the Lost Heimat in West Germany in the 1950s and 1960s" German Studies Review Vol. 34 Iss. 2 (2011) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/alice-weinreb/11/