Marianna Dushar (

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: Маріанна Душар) is a Ukrainian anthropologist and food writer, who specialises in the culinary heritage of the Galician region in eastern Europe.

Biography

Dushar is from

Lviv Lviv ( uk, Львів) is the largest city in western Ukraine, and the seventh-largest in Ukraine, with a population of . It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine ...

. She earned degrees from

Lviv University The University of Lviv ( uk, Львівський університет, Lvivskyi universytet; pl, Uniwersytet Lwowski; german: Universität Lemberg, briefly known as the ''Theresianum'' in the early 19th century), presently the Ivan Franko Na ...

in Biology and Biophysics. Her post-graduate research focussed on Ukrainian cuisine, with a particular focus on the food of Galicia. She has argued for greater recognition of the potential for gastro-tourism of local food cultures in Ukraine. She has also argued that Galician cuisine has a particular quality due to the successive waves of migration to the region from across Europe. She also works to collect and publish historic recipes from the region, in order to facilitate resurgence in the region's culinary heritage. She also researches the culinary traditions of

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communities. In 2019, Dushar was awarded a

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for a research project entitled, 'Reclaiming Ukraine's Gastronomic Traditions: More Than Just Borscht and Varenyky'. The project was based in the Department of Social Anthropology in the Ethnology Institute of

National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (NASU; uk, Національна академія наук України, ''Natsional’na akademiya nauk Ukrayiny'', abbr: NAN Ukraine) is a self-governing state-funded organization in Ukraine th ...

. She also works on the history of

borscht Borscht () is a sour soup common in Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. In English, the word "borscht" is most often associated with the soup's variant of Ukraine, Ukrainian origin, made with red beetroots as one of the main ingredients, wh ...

, and supported its inclusion as part of the

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listing of Ukraine's

intangible cultural heritage An intangible cultural heritage (ICH) is a practice, representation, expression, knowledge, or skill considered by UNESCO to be part of a place's cultural heritage. Buildings, historic places, monuments, and artifacts are cultural property. Int ...

. Dushar has co-authored several books, widening appreciation of the works of other writers, such as the novelist Sofia Andrukhovych, Daria Tsvek,

Olha Franko Olga or Olha Fedorivna Franko (Junior) (24 July 1896 – 27 March 1987)Public sign, tombstone in Ukraine (also see image in article) was a Ukrainian writer, and the creator of the first Ukrainian cookbook. Early life and education Franko was ...

, amongst others. Her recipe for mushroom and gherkin soup appeared in ''Summer Kitchens'' by Olia Hercules. She also writes under the pseudonym Pani Stefa, which she also used as the name for her blog. In response to the

2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine On 24 February 2022, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, which began in 2014. The invasion has resulted in tens of thousands of deaths on both sides. It has caused Europe's largest refugee crisis since World War II. An ...

, Dushar published a recipe for

Molotov cocktail A Molotov cocktail (among several other names – ''see other names'') is a hand thrown incendiary weapon constructed from a frangible container filled with flammable substances equipped with a fuse (typically a glass bottle filled with flamma ...

s on her blog.

Selected publications

* У будні і свята - On High Days and Holidays (Видавництво Старого Лева, 2016) * Галицькі смаколики: кулінарний записник alyt︠s︡ʹki Smakolyky: Kulinarnyĭ Zapysnyk- Galician Delicacies: a Culinary Notebook (Vydavnyt︠s︡tvo Staroho Leva, 2019) * 1-ша українська загально-практична кухня - 1st Ukrainian Practical Cuisine (2019) * Львівська кухня - Lviv Cuisine (Folio Distribution, 2020)

References

External links

Official website

Recipe for kolach

“Ukrainian Culinary Heritage: Bread, Borsch, and Beyond”
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