Can Literature „speak culinary”? On Example of Categories of Elderly and Youth

In this paper I examine how culinary scenes correspond with categories of elderly and youth. Texts
I analyse differ in terms and the amount of culinary aspects — from simple enumeration of side and
main dishes to more detailed culinary scenes which are often remembered by the readers. The author of
this paper is going to examine the ritual of tea brewing as performed by nubiles which is characteristic
for the 19th century literature. The most important is to reveral causes and consequences of this ritual.
In the second part of the paper there will be analysed socialist-realist novel, which depicts old and young
people engaged in the act of eating. I debate whether the elderly and the youth are depicted similarly in
the culinary context. Additionally, I devote some attention to gender differences.