the habits born of starvation are so deeply ingrained that they still hold sway three generations out
Well, the same is true to some extent here in post-Depression America. There are a lot of recipes my grandma and mom make that have some (to me) weird ingredients (ones that don't have much of a use except as filler, or meat replacement, or somesuch) that originated as Depression-era dishes. My grandma, who was a child during the Depression, never let us leave her table if we had any food on our plates.
After a while, habits become tradition. How many of those Depression-era dishes are still made the same way, with meat substitutes and fillers, because that's how the children and grandchildren were taught to make it?
Re: echoes of starvation in the Ukraine
Well, the same is true to some extent here in post-Depression America. There are a lot of recipes my grandma and mom make that have some (to me) weird ingredients (ones that don't have much of a use except as filler, or meat replacement, or somesuch) that originated as Depression-era dishes. My grandma, who was a child during the Depression, never let us leave her table if we had any food on our plates.
After a while, habits become tradition. How many of those Depression-era dishes are still made the same way, with meat substitutes and fillers, because that's how the children and grandchildren were taught to make it?