The monograph, based on the systematization and generalization of historical information, field and archival ethnographic and folklore materials, examines the household and ritual and cultural life of the traditional Bashkir society, including meals dedicated to the holidays and rituals of the life and calendar cycles. The evolution of the food system of the people is traced, its local features are revealed depending on the natural-geographical, economic, historical, socio-cultural, religious, ethnogenetic and other factors.