From a Homemade to an Industrial Product: Manufacturing Bulgarian Yogurt

ELITSA STOILOVA is a PhD student in a joint program between Plovdiv University and the Eindhoven University of Technology. Her dissertation is “Bulgarian Yogurt: Manufacturing and Exporting of Authenticity.” She has participated in international research projects such as “Local Heritage: Resource for Sustainable Development”; “European Ways of Life in the American Century”; “Successful Studying of Foreign Students. The Bulgarian Case”; “The ‘Uses’ of the Central Park or Urban Garden. Anthropology of Urban Places”; and “Political and Social Inclusion and Exclusion in Poland and Bulgaria.” Her research interests include the sociology and history of technology, food authenticity, identity, and image creation.