Burek : a culinary metaphor / Jernej Mleku�z.

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Mleku�z, Jernej

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Budapest : Central European University Press, 2015.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9789633860915
9633860911

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Burek.DDC classification:

306.4429184 23

LOC classification:

P302.15.S57 M54 2015

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Contents:

Preburek (I mean, foreword!) / Jo�ze Vogrinc -- Before the burek -- Towards the burek -- About the burek -- After the burek -- (Non)burek literature -- Burekarchive.

Scope and content: "'As Simple as Burek' is a saying current among young people in Slovenia. But in his book, Jernej Mleku�z holds just the opposite. The burek--a pie made of pastry dough filled with various fillings, well-known in the Balkans, Turkey (b�urek), and also in the Near East by other names--whether on the plate or as a cultural artifact, is in fact not that simple. After a brief stroll though its innocent history, before parasitical ideologies had attached themselves to the burek and poisoned its discourses, Mleku�z focuses on the present. In Slovenia, the burek has become a loaded metaphor for the Balkans and immigrants from the republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Without the burek it would be equally difficult to consider the jargon of Slovenian youth, the imagined world of Slovenian chauvinism and the rhetorical arsenal of advertising agents when promoting healthy foods. In this analysis therefore, the burek is always what Mleku�z calls the metaburek. It is greasy, Balkan, Slovene, not-Slovene, the greatest, eastern, the best, shit, oriental, unhealthy, plebian, Yugoslav, junk, a cherub (burek spelled backwards is kerub, the Slovene word for cherub). And this metaburek, which is the protagonist of this book, is never a completely pure, innocent, unconditioned burek. It is much more than just a burek. And a word of warning: after consuming this text, the burek will never be the same"--Provided by pubolisher.

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Preburek (I mean, foreword!) / Jo�ze Vogrinc -- Before the burek -- Towards the burek -- About the burek -- After the burek -- (Non)burek literature -- Burekarchive.

"'As Simple as Burek' is a saying current among young people in Slovenia. But in his book, Jernej Mleku�z holds just the opposite. The burek--a pie made of pastry dough filled with various fillings, well-known in the Balkans, Turkey (b�urek), and also in the Near East by other names--whether on the plate or as a cultural artifact, is in fact not that simple. After a brief stroll though its innocent history, before parasitical ideologies had attached themselves to the burek and poisoned its discourses, Mleku�z focuses on the present. In Slovenia, the burek has become a loaded metaphor for the Balkans and immigrants from the republics of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Without the burek it would be equally difficult to consider the jargon of Slovenian youth, the imagined world of Slovenian chauvinism and the rhetorical arsenal of advertising agents when promoting healthy foods. In this analysis therefore, the burek is always what Mleku�z calls the metaburek. It is greasy, Balkan, Slovene, not-Slovene, the greatest, eastern, the best, shit, oriental, unhealthy, plebian, Yugoslav, junk, a cherub (burek spelled backwards is kerub, the Slovene word for cherub). And this metaburek, which is the protagonist of this book, is never a completely pure, innocent, unconditioned burek. It is much more than just a burek. And a word of warning: after consuming this text, the burek will never be the same"--Provided by pubolisher.

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