Recipes for Russia

by Alison K. Smith

Book Overview

Alison K. Smith examines changing attitudes, behaviors, and beliefs about the production and consumption of food in Russia from the late eighteenth century through the mid-nineteenth century. She focuses on the way that competing ideas based either in "traditional" Russian practice or in new practices from the "rational" West became the basis for Russians' understanding of themselves and their society. The Russians who participated in the process...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875806686
• ISBN13: 9780875806686
• Release Date: February 2008
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher