Foreword / Marion NestleAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Food and Everyday Life after State Socialism / Melissa L. Caldwell1. From Canned Food to Canny Consumers: Cultural Competence in the Age of Mechanical Production / Yuson Jung2. The Tale of the Toxic Paprika: The Hungarian Taste of Euro-Globalization / Zsuzsa Gille3. Self-Made Women: Informal Dairy Markets in Europeanizing Lithuania / Diana Mincyte4. Tempest in a Coffee Pot: Brewing Incivility in Russia's Public Sphere / Melissa L. Caldwell5. The Geopolitics of Taste: The "Euro" and "Soviet" Sausage Industries in Lithuania / Neringa Klumbyte6. A Celebration of Masterstvo: Professional Cooking, Culinary Art, and Cultural Production in Russia / Stas Shectman7. The Social and Gendered Lives of Vodka in Rural Siberia / Katherine MetzoAfterword. Turnips and Mangos: Power and the Edible State in Eastern Europe / Elizabeth C. DunnList of ContributorsIndex

Food under the repressive Soviet regimes may have been scarce, but at least some survivors of the earlier regime considered it delicious, natural, and healthful. In contrast, while the new Europeanized food may be abundant, many find it artificial and tasteless. As food systems become even more globalized, and more and more developing countries undergo food transitions, the issues discussed in this book become even more widely applicable.