Russian Festive Cooking

by Susie Ward

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0785805028
• ISBN13: 9780785805021
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Booksales
• Length: 299 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.8" x 11.3"

Customer Reviews

Short book, good food

"Russian Festive Cooking" is a short (48 pp. & about 55 recipes), but useful cookbook. The recipes are from all parts of Russia (including some of the independent states that formed after the fall of the USSR). These are not holiday dishes, but are the sort of good food one wants to have for a small (or large) party. Most of the recipes have a very good color photo of the finished dish, which will help cooks to prepare the food properly. The book is high quality and is printed on very good paper. I found the recipes to be straight-forward and clear. However, there are dishes included that must be started days ahead, to prepare them properly. (Some of the dishes require fermentation of one or more ingredients.) Be sure to read the recipes carefully and to prepare a small dish for your family, before attempting to make food for any party, or for visitors. This is the sort of book that a good American cook will have, to prepare something unexpected for guests. Also, Slavic-Americans, with ancestry in Eastern Europe or the former USSR, may enjoy these foods as 'soul-food'. In fact, this book might be a good gift for Slavic-Americans.