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British people traveling to the Russian Empire in the nineteenth century encountered its truly multiethnic composition In the South Caucasus they were introduced for instance to Georgian viticulture often served in Armenian inns suggesting a culinary contact zone Cultural contacts were equally seen in the Crimean Peninsula the Greeks were wine tobacco and cabbage cultivators the Russians made the kvas drink from local fruits dried by the Tatars and the Germans used wild wines for ornamentation to be sold in markets These peculiarities did not escape British travel writers Identification of cultural difference and establishment of national superiority are reflected in the greediness of the Crimean Tatars who devour their food suggesting savage-like habits in Mary Holderness s New Russia journey from Riga to the Crimea 1823 Age and social class attract commentary too Holderness remarks that although both sexes partake in tobacco smoking elderly Crimean women abstain and though a Circassian servant is not to drink alcohol Robert Lyall Travels in Russia the Krimea the Caucasus and Georgia 1825 the leading trait of Tatar servants is their gross immorality and love of drunkenness Food is also used as an allegory to establish the superiority of Christianity over Islam with William Glen qualifying the former as nutritive and the latter unwholesome Journal of a tour from Astrachan to Karass north of the mountains of the Caucasus 1823 Moreover foodways reflected religious beliefs Ebenezer Henderson Biblical researches and travels in Russia 1826 is astonished that Crimean Greeks use cherry trees to hang religious rags and that superstitious Armenians place peace-offering foods for an ill family member Culinary descriptions gave these authors legitimacy and proved that they had immersed themselves in the local life This paper aims to discuss how the abovementioned British travelers chronicled their observations on food drink habits based on gender class age and religious belonging including their own

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A Feast of Observations: The British Within the Alimentary Contact Zones of Nineteenth-Century Russian Imperial Frontier...

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