{"product_id":"classic-russian-cooking-elena-molokhovets-a-gift-to-young-housewives-9780253212108","title":"Classic Russian Cooking: Elena Molokhovets' A Gift to Young Housewives","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\u003cbr\u003e\"\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\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a delicious book, and Indiana University Press has served it up beautifully.\" --Russian Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\" . . . 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\u003cbr\u003e\"It gives a delightful and fascinating picture of the foods of pre-Communist Russia.\" --The Christian Science Monitor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJoyce Toomre, a Slavicist and culinary historian, is coeditor (with Musya Glants) of Food in Russian History and Culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50410019356946,"sku":"9780253212108","price":45.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_063d40ac-f441-46e2-8da4-e815e7b471f9.jpg?v=1729299046","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/classic-russian-cooking-elena-molokhovets-a-gift-to-young-housewives-9780253212108","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}