Food and Cooking of Russia

by Lesley Chamberlain

Book Overview

Lesley Chamberlain lived in Soviet Russia in 1978-79 and recorded her experiences in the form of two hundred recipes interwoven with details of Russian culture and history and her own practical advice. From blini to cabbage soup, and caviar eggs to "Russian salad, " she reveals the continuity of Russian life, despite political repression, in which the bourgeois cooking of the nineteenth century coexisted with old dishes dictated by the church calendar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0140468145
• ISBN13: 9780140468144
• Release Date: March 1989
• Publisher: Penguin Group
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.