Classic Russian Cooking | Elena Molokhovets, Joyce Toomre

oClassic Russian Cooking is a book that I highly recommend. Joyce Toomre has done a marvelous job of translating this valuable and fascinating source book. ItOs the Fanny Farmer and Isabella Beeton of RussiaOs 19th century. O NJulia Child, Food Arts oJoyce Toomre ... has accomplished an enormous task, fully on a part with the original authorOs slave labor. Her extensive preface and her detailed and entertaining notes are marvelous. O NTatyana Tolstaya, New York Review of Books o... should become as much of a classic as the Russian original ... dazzling and admirable expedition into RussiaOs kitchens and cuisine. O NSlavic Review oWhat a delightful discovery this is! ... an astonishing and immensely appealing work that will serve adventurous readers and curious cooks. O NNahum Waxman, Owner, Kitchen Arts & Letters oWhat a joy to be introduced to RussiaOs Joy of Cooking by way of a scholar as knowledgeable as Joyce Toomre, who tells us what it was like to be a young housewife in the days of Chekhov and Tolstoy, feasting in Butter Week before the Great Fast, making pirogs and kvass, hazel grouse souffle [acute accent over e] and ODrunkenO plums, gathering berries, pickling mushrooms. A rediscovery of pre-Bolshevik times. O NBetty H. Fussell, author of I Hear America Cooking First published in 1861, this obibleO of Russian homemakers offered not only a compendium of recipes, but also instructions about such matters as setting up a kitchen, managing servants, shopping, and proper winter storage. Joyce Toomre has superbly translated and annotated over one thousand of the recipes and has written a thorough and fascinating introduction that discusses the history of Russian cuisine and summarizes Elena MolokhovetsO advice on household management. A treasure trove for culinary historians, serous cooks and cookbook readers, and scholars of Russian history and culture. Indiana-Michigan Series in Russian and East European Studies Alexander Rabinowitch and William G. Rosenberg, general editors