On 20 October 2020, the head of the museum and educational department of Bolgar Museum-Reserve R. Z. Vagapov held an interactive knowledge lesson on “National cuisine is a key to the history” for the first-year students of group 20310 of the department “Food service technology” of Spassky College of sectoral technology.
Over the ages, culture of multimillion, multinational Russia became the sum of cultures of peoples of different nationalities numbering over 120 in the country. Original national culture does not depend on whether the nation is big or small, if people live in the centre of the European part or in the remote tundra, if they have the administrative and territorial division or not. Cooking, national traditions of feast are an integral and significant part of ethnic culture. Gastronomic passions of every nation have been established for centuries. They found the strength of a habit and formed the foundation of national customs.
During the lesson, on the example of Tatar national dishes students learned how study of national cuisine could be an exciting and tasty source of the study of native history. The culinary arts of Tatar people are rich in their national and cultural traditions stretching back into the depths of time. In the course of a centuries-old history, developed the original national cuisine, which preserved its separate identity to the present day.
At the end of the event, it was concluded that love of your culture and language revives identity and a sense of dignity. There is a feedback – a person with a high self-esteem respects culinary traditions and appreciates the chef’s professionalism. “Change the person’s meal – and the person will change little by little”, D. I. Pisarev told wistfully in the day. Is that why having a simple and meagre meal now we became so pragmatic and often indifferent and forgot many national traditions? It is so important to learn cookery, its national foundation, shades of taste and to revive the traditions of national meal.

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