This volume focuses on food culture and politics in three Baltic States: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. In popular and scholarly writings, the Baltic States are often seen as a meat-and-potatoes kind of place, inferior to sophisticated cuisines of the West and exotic diets in the East. Such views stem from the long intellectual tradition that focuses on political and cultural centers as sources of progress. But, as a new generation of writers have argued, in order to fully grasp the on-going cultural and political changes, we need to shift the focus from capital cities such as Paris,...