ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Slovene food consumption in the twentieth century. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Slovenia was predominantly an agrarian country, with most of its population living in the countryside and tilling the land. Generally self-sufficient, Slovene farmers worked the land for their own household needs and to a lesser extent to market their crops. Changes in food culture were introduced gradually and were connected with the growing mobility of the rural population. Whether working in towns on a regular basis or only occasionally, this segment of the population adopted some urban food customs and transplanted them to their original rural environment. Until the middle of the twentieth century, the majority of the Slovene urban population obtained their food mostly from nearby agrarian areas. As in the First World War, food shortage and irregular food supply characterized the period just before, during, and after the Second World War.
