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Zašto nisam naučila kuhati
Što se krije iza izvezenih ruža i golubova na starim kuhinjskim zidnjacima? Slavenka Drakulić kreće u neočekivano putovanje kroz vlastitu prošlost – od mirisa primorske bakine i majčine kuhinje do čuda prve banane koju je kao djevojčica okusila kod tete u Italiji i koja je zauvijek promijenila njezin odnos prema hrani i slobodi.
Ovo je knjiga o ženi koja je tvrdoglavo odbijala naučiti kuhati u svijetu koji je to od nje zahtijevao. Kroz niz intimnih, duhovitih i dirljivih priča Slavenka Drakulić razgolićuje patrijarhalnu ideologiju skrivenu u svakodnevnim predmetima, obiteljskim ritualima i bračnim očekivanjima.
Između svekrovih mudrosti, makrobiotičkih eksperimenata i štrudle od jabuka kao vrhunskog kulinarskog trijumfa Slavenka Drakulić postavlja provokativno pitanje: mora li ljubav zaista prolaziti kroz želudac?
Zašto nisam naučila kuhati toplo je, britko i neodoljivo iskreno štivo koje budi nostalgiju i sjećanja te postavlja i danas ključna i bitna feministička pitanja. Knjiga Slavenke Drakulić uživa se polako baš poput dobrog ručka koji niste sami skuhali.
Ovo je knjiga o ženi koja je tvrdoglavo odbijala naučiti kuhati u svijetu koji je to od nje zahtijevao. Kroz niz intimnih, duhovitih i dirljivih priča Slavenka Drakulić razgolićuje patrijarhalnu ideologiju skrivenu u svakodnevnim predmetima, obiteljskim ritualima i bračnim očekivanjima.
Između svekrovih mudrosti, makrobiotičkih eksperimenata i štrudle od jabuka kao vrhunskog kulinarskog trijumfa Slavenka Drakulić postavlja provokativno pitanje: mora li ljubav zaista prolaziti kroz želudac?
Zašto nisam naučila kuhati toplo je, britko i neodoljivo iskreno štivo koje budi nostalgiju i sjećanja te postavlja i danas ključna i bitna feministička pitanja. Knjiga Slavenke Drakulić uživa se polako baš poput dobrog ručka koji niste sami skuhali.
148 pages, Hardcover
Published June 1, 2026
About the author
Slavenka Drakulić
40 books726 followersSlavenka Drakulić (1949–2026) was a Croatian journalist, novelist and essayist whose works on feminism, communism and post-communism have been translated into many languages.
In her fiction Drakulić has touched on a variety of topics, such as dealing with illness and fear of death in Holograms of fear; the destructive power of sexual desire in Marble skin; an unconventional relationship in The taste of a man; cruelty of war and rape victims in S. A Novel About the Balkans (made into a feature film As If I Am Not There, directed by Juanita Wilson); a fictionalized life of Frida Kahlo in Frida's bed. In her novel Optužena (English translation forthcoming), Drakulić writes about the not often addressed topic of child abuse by her own mother. In her novel Dora i Minotaur Drakulic writes about Dora Maar and her turbulent relationship to Pablo Picasso, and how it affected Dora's intellectual identity. In her last novel Mileva Einstein, teorija tuge she writes about Einstein's wife Mileva Maric. The novel is written from Mileva's point of view, especially describing how motherhood and financial and emotional dependence on Einstein took her away from science and professional life.
Drakulić has also published eight non-fiction books. Her main interests in non-fiction include the political and ideological situation in post-communist countries, war crimes, nationalism, feminist issues, illness, and the female body. In How We Survived Communism; Balkan Express; Café Europa she deals with everyday life in communist and post-communist countries. In 2021, Drakulic wrote a sequel to Café Europa, Café Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism. Drakulic wrote the history of communism through the perspective of animals in A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism. She explores evil in ordinary people and choices they make in They Would Never Hurt a Fly War Criminals On Trial In The Hague, about the people who committed crimes during the Croatian Homeland war. On the other side, in Flesh of her flesh (available in English only as an e-book) Drakulić writes about the ultimate good – people who decide to donate their own kidney to a person they have never met. Her first book, Deadly sins of feminism (1984) is available in Croatian only: Smrtni grijesi feminizma.
Drakulić was a contributing editor in The Nation (USA) and a freelance author whose essays have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine and The New York Review Of Books. She contributed to Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Internazionale (Italy), Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), The Guardian (UK), Eurozine and other newspapers and magazines.
Slavenka Drakulić is the recipient of the 2004 Leipzig Book-fair ”Award for European Understanding.” At the Gathering of International Writers in Prague in 2010 she was proclaimed as one of the most influential European writers of our time.
In her fiction Drakulić has touched on a variety of topics, such as dealing with illness and fear of death in Holograms of fear; the destructive power of sexual desire in Marble skin; an unconventional relationship in The taste of a man; cruelty of war and rape victims in S. A Novel About the Balkans (made into a feature film As If I Am Not There, directed by Juanita Wilson); a fictionalized life of Frida Kahlo in Frida's bed. In her novel Optužena (English translation forthcoming), Drakulić writes about the not often addressed topic of child abuse by her own mother. In her novel Dora i Minotaur Drakulic writes about Dora Maar and her turbulent relationship to Pablo Picasso, and how it affected Dora's intellectual identity. In her last novel Mileva Einstein, teorija tuge she writes about Einstein's wife Mileva Maric. The novel is written from Mileva's point of view, especially describing how motherhood and financial and emotional dependence on Einstein took her away from science and professional life.
Drakulić has also published eight non-fiction books. Her main interests in non-fiction include the political and ideological situation in post-communist countries, war crimes, nationalism, feminist issues, illness, and the female body. In How We Survived Communism; Balkan Express; Café Europa she deals with everyday life in communist and post-communist countries. In 2021, Drakulic wrote a sequel to Café Europa, Café Europa Revisited: How to Survive Post-Communism. Drakulic wrote the history of communism through the perspective of animals in A Guided Tour Through the Museum of Communism. She explores evil in ordinary people and choices they make in They Would Never Hurt a Fly War Criminals On Trial In The Hague, about the people who committed crimes during the Croatian Homeland war. On the other side, in Flesh of her flesh (available in English only as an e-book) Drakulić writes about the ultimate good – people who decide to donate their own kidney to a person they have never met. Her first book, Deadly sins of feminism (1984) is available in Croatian only: Smrtni grijesi feminizma.
Drakulić was a contributing editor in The Nation (USA) and a freelance author whose essays have appeared in The New Republic, The New York Times Magazine and The New York Review Of Books. She contributed to Süddeutsche Zeitung (Germany), Internazionale (Italy), Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), The Guardian (UK), Eurozine and other newspapers and magazines.
Slavenka Drakulić is the recipient of the 2004 Leipzig Book-fair ”Award for European Understanding.” At the Gathering of International Writers in Prague in 2010 she was proclaimed as one of the most influential European writers of our time.
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August 10, 2026
Posljednja knjiga Slavenke Drakulić, objavljena tek koji tjedan nakon njezine iznenadne smrti, doima se nekako blažom, mekšom, manje tipičnom u odnosu na njezine ranije knjige. Inspirirana priglupim (a zapravo potcjenjivačkim i ponižavajućim) stihovima s nekad popularnih "zidnjaka" (ukrasnih zidnih kuhinjskih krpa), tekstovi u ovoj knjizi su anegdotalne prirode, i više nego o samom kuhanju, govore o autoričinom djetinjstvu i odrastanju, sve kroz prizmu različitih jela (juha, sarma, frigana riba, pohane tikvice, itd.). Tek zadnja tri poglavlja na tragu su ranijih feminističkih tekstova Slavenke Drakulić, i ukazuju na dublju pozadinu takozvane važnosti kuhanja u životu žene. Šteta što nije i cijela knjiga u tom tonu. Simpatična je, opuštajuća, ali ne više od toga.
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