Food Culture

Food plays a wide role within a culture and society, which helps solidify its place as a powerful component of identity formation. This includes how people relate to food, social customs surrounding food and sharing food, nutritional profiles of national diets, and overviews of specific ingredients.

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October 4, 2025

The SRAS Guide to Fermented Milk

Russia and Central Asia offer what can seem to be a bewildering selection of dairy products in their transnational food cultures. An area of special note, and often one of the strangest to Westerners, is the seemingly never-ending assortment of fermented milk drinks and products in the gastronomic repertoire. To cut down on the brow-furrowing […]

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8,000 Years of Winemaking Lives On in Georgia

A Guide to Georgian Dairy Products

The Language and History of Caviar: Olga’s Blog

Mushrooms in Cultures and Cuisines: Olga’s Blog

Mushroom Season Has Begun! Olga’s Blog

Milk Bars: Warsaw’s Proletarian Food Culture

Sabantuy: A Global Summer Festival Celebrating Tatar Heritage

Ramadan and Eid in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan

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