{"product_id":"classic-russian-cooking","title":"Classic Russian Cooking","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"Joyce Toomre . . . has accomplished an enormous task, fully on a par with the original author's slave labor. Her extensive preface and her detailed and entertaining notes are marvelous.\" —Tatyana Tolstaya, New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\n\"\u003ci\u003eClassic Russian Cooking\u003c\/i\u003e is a book that I highly recommend. Joyce Toomre has done a marvelous job of translating this valuable and fascinating source book. It's the Fanny Farmer and Isabella Beeton of Russia's 19th century.\" —Julia Child, Food Arts\u003cbr\u003e\n\"This is a delicious book, and Indiana University Press has served it up beautifully.\" —Russian Review\u003cbr\u003e\n\" . . . should become as much of a classic as the Russian original . . . dazzling and admirable expedition into Russia's kitchens and cuisine.\" —Slavic Review\u003cbr\u003e\n\"It gives a delightful and fascinating picture of the foods of pre-Communist Russia.\" —The Christian Science Monitor\u003cbr\u003e\nFirst published in 1861, this \"bible\" 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 which discusses the history of Russian cuisine and summarizes Molokhovets' advice on household management. A treasure trove for culinary historians, serious cooks and cookbook readers, and scholars of Russian history and culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Elena Molokhovets","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53614899364220,"sku":"9780253212108","price":39.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0251\/4980\/0541\/files\/9780253212108_d08e23b1-8ef4-49b0-9e71-4881ea34ec64.jpg?v=1726132451","url":"https:\/\/combined-academic.myshopify.com\/products\/classic-russian-cooking","provider":"Combined Academic Publishers - Mare Nostrum Group","version":"1.0","type":"link"}