Foods and Nations #: Cabbage and Caviar

A History of Food in Russia

Foods and Nations #: Cabbage and Caviar
Alison K Smith
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Hardback
h234 x 156mm - 360pg
17 May 2021 UK
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9781789143645
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When people think of Russian food they generally think either of opulent luxury, signified above all by caviar, or of poverty and hunger - of cabbage and potatoes and porridge. Both of these visions have a basis in reality, but both of them are incomplete. The history of food and drink in Russia includes hunger and it includes plenty, it includes scarcity and, for some, at least, abundance. It includes dishes that came out of the northern, forested regions and ones that incorporate foods from the wider Russian Empire and later from the Soviet Union. Cabbage and Caviar places Russian food and drink in the context of Russian history, and shows off the incredible (and largely unknown) variety of Russian food.

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"A sumptuous survey of twelve centuries of Russian history through the prism of food, Cabbage and Caviar offers up a brilliant account of eating, drinking, and food producing through the ages. With her analysis of the worlds of princes, peasants, townsfolk, and commissars, Smith shows how foodways both blurred and reinforced social distinctions, whether in in times of aspirational plenty or of tragic famine. A feast for the eyes as well as the culinary imagination, Smith' s book treats us to mouth-watering recipes and a vivid appreciation for the richness and diversity of Russia' s everyday life. "--Diane P. Koenker, Director and Professor of Russian and Soviet History, University College London "At a moment when Russian cuisine is ascendant--with critically acclaimed restaurants, celebrity chefs, and popular cookbooks--there is no better guide to its thousand-year history than Smith' s Cabbage and Caviar. In a book that is both erudite and accessible, Smith again shows herself to be one of the world' s foremost scholars of Russian food and drink. "--Stephen V. Bittner, author of "Whites and Reds: A History of Wine in the Lands of Tsar and Commissar"
Alison K. Smith is Professor and Chair of the Department of History at the University of Toronto. She is the author of Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars (2008) and For the Common Good and Their Own Well-Being: Social Estates in Imperial Russia (2014).
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ISBN-13: 9781789143645
Published: 17 May 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Reaktion Books
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 360

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