...Albena Shkodrova This article focuses on the puzzling circumstances that led to the production of the first bottle of Coca-Cola in Eastern Europe—in Bulgaria in 1965. The curious story line is revisited because, while opposition to the expansion of the iconic drink after World War II particularly...

... web page, http://www.ucpress.edu/journals.php?p=reprints . 2017 Bulgaria socialism tourism consumption national cuisine Dining in Utopia: A Taste of the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast under Socialism I RECENTLY HAPPENED UPON A rather curious artifact from late socialist Bulgaria, an English...

... in postsocialist Bulgaria and postindustrial Detroit, the article explores the meanings of “good” food, and suggests that “alternatives” do not always translate as foods that are exceptionally moral and pure owing to intrinsic superior values. These comparative case studies complicate a familiar, stereotypical...