Marianna Dushar

{{Short description|Ukrainian anthropologist and food writer}}{{Family name hatnote|Ihorivna|Dushar|lang=Eastern Slavic}}{{Infobox writer

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| caption = Marianna Dushar (July 2023)

| name = Marianna Dushar

| pseudonym = Pani Stefa

| native_name = Маріанна Душар

| native_name_lang = uk

| occupation = Anthropologist, food writer

| alma_mater = University of Lviv

| subject = Ukrainian culinary history

| language = Ukrainian

| birth_place = Lviv, Ukraine

| website = {{URL|panistefa.com}}

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Marianna Ihorivna Dushar ({{Langx|uk|Маріанна Ігорівна Душар}}) is a Ukrainian anthropologist and food writer, who specialises in the culinary heritage of the Halychyna region in central Europe.

Biography

Dushar is from Lviv.{{Cite web |title=Ukrainian Gastronomic Identity: Tastes We Almost Lost {{!}} Ukrainian National Museum of Chicago |date=4 March 2020 |url=https://ukrainiannationalmuseum.org/ukrainian-gastronomic-identity-tastes-we-almost-lost/ |access-date=2022-03-07 |language=en-US}} She earned degrees from Lviv University in Biology and Biophysics.{{Cite web |title=Lecture "Ukrainian Gastronomy Identity in Ukraine and Diaspora" – Shevchenko Scientific Society |url=https://shevchenko.org/past_event/lecture-ukrainian-gastronomy-identity-in-ukraine-and-diaspora/ |access-date=2022-03-07 |language=en-US}} Her post-graduate research focussed on Ukrainian cuisine, with a particular focus on the food of Halychyna. 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.{{Cite web |last=Plakhta |first=Dmytro |date=22 August 2018 |title="Food is a little universal anchor and a way of identification" |url=https://day.kyiv.ua/en/article/time-out/food-little-universal-anchor-and-way-identification}} She also works to collect and publish historic recipes from the region, in order to facilitate resurgence in the region's culinary heritage.Остроушко, Оксана. [https://journal.kdpu.edu.ua/filstd/article/download/2325/2144/3777 "Параметри українського кулінарного сайту: соціально-комунікативна ситуація, комунікативна мета, концепції адресанта й адресата."] Філологічні студії: Науковий вісник Криворізького державного педагогічного університету 19 (2019): 91-108. She also researches the culinary traditions of Ukrainian diaspora communities.{{Cite web |title=День Подяки з українським смаком |url=https://www.istpravda.com.ua/columns/2020/11/26/158553/ |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=Історична правда}}

In 2019, Dushar was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship for a research project entitled, 'Reclaiming Ukraine's Gastronomic Traditions: More Than Just Borscht and Varenyky.{{Cite web |title=Marianna Dushar |url=https://cies.org/grantee/marianna-dushar |website=CIESS}} The project was based in the Department of Social Anthropology in the Ethnology Institute of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.{{Cite web |title=Department |url=https://social-anthropology.org.ua/en/about-us/department/ |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=Social Anthropology |language=en-GB}} She also works on the history of borscht, and supported its inclusion as part of the UNESCO listing of Ukraine's intangible cultural heritage.{{Cite web |date=2020-10-21 |title=Ukraine seeks U.N. cultural status for beloved borscht. A culinary spat with Russia could be brewing. |url=https://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/ukraine-seeks-u-n-cultural-status-for-beloved-borscht-a-culinary-spat-with-russia-could-be-brewing/ |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=The Seattle Times |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Гастрономічна спадщина та національна ідентичність |url=https://www.istpravda.com.ua/columns/2021/08/11/159985/ |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=Історична правда}}{{Cite web |date=2020-10-11 |title=П'ять цікавих фактів про борщ, яких ви не знали |url=https://www.bbc.com/ukrainian/features-54447232 |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=BBC News Україна |language=uk}}

Dushar has co-authored several books, widening appreciation of the works of other writers, such as the novelist Sofia Andrukhovych,{{Cite book |last=Dushar |first=Marianna |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U3YUzgEACAAJ |title=Галицькі смаколики: кулінарний записник |date=2019 |publisher=Vydavnyt︠s︡tvo Staroho Leva |isbn=978-617-679-563-6 |language=uk}} Daria Tsvek,{{Cite book |last1=T︠S︡vi︠e︡k |first1=Darii︠a︡ |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1011663558 |title=U budni i svi︠a︡ta |last2=Цвєк |first2=Дарія |date=2016 |isbn=978-617-679-257-4 |location=Lʹviv |oclc=1011663558}} Olha Franko,{{Cite web |last= |date=30 Dec 2020 |title=Чому варто сходити на вечірку інтроверта #умістілітератури. – CITY OF LITERATURE |url=https://cityofliterature.lviv.ua/en/chomu-varto-shodyty-na-vechirku-introverta-umistiliteratury/ |access-date=2022-03-04 |language=en-US}} amongst others. Her recipe for mushroom and gherkin soup appeared in Summer Kitchens by Olia Hercules.{{Cite book |last=Hercules |first=Olia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U9XcDwAAQBAJ&dq=Marianna+Dushar&pg=PT239 |title=Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine |date=2020-06-25 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-5266-2289-1 |language=en}} She also writes under the pseudonym Pani Stefa, which she also used as the name for her blog.{{Cite web |title=PANI STEFA: CHRISTMAS TRADITIONS OF OUR FAMILY - Ukrainians in Canada - Ukrainian Echo |url=http://www.homin.ca/news.php/news/23052/group/23 |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=www.homin.ca}}

In response to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Dushar published a recipe for Molotov cocktails on her blog.{{Cite web |last=stefa |date=2022-02-25 |title="Коктейль Молотова" + Коктейль "Майдан" для непроханих гостей |url=https://panistefa.com/sezonnyj-koktejl-molotova-dlya-neprohanyh-gostej/ |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=Пані Стефа |language=uk}}

Selected publications

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  • У будні і свята - On High Days and Holidays (Видавництво Старого Лева, 2016)
  • Галицькі смаколики: кулінарний записник [Halyt︠s︡ʹki Smakolyky: Kulinarnyĭ Zapysnyk] - Galician Delicacies: a Culinary Notebook (Vydavnyt︠s︡tvo Staroho Leva, 2019)
  • 1-ша українська загально-практична кухня - 1st Ukrainian Practical Cuisine (2019){{Cite book |url=https://folio.com.ua/books/1-sha-ukrayinska-zagalno-praktichna-kuhnya |title=1-ша українська загально-практична кухня |isbn=978-966-03-8794-2 |language=uk}}
  • Львівська кухня - Lviv Cuisine (Folio Distribution, 2020){{Cite book |last=Лильо |first=Ігор |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GuTxDwAAQBAJ |title=Львівська кухня: Друге видання |date=2020-07-07 |publisher=Folio Publishing House |isbn=978-966-03-8762-1 |language=uk}}

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