Русская кухня в изгнании

Russian Cuisine in Exile, a collection of essays and essays on gastronomic topics written by Pyotr Weil and Alexander Genis in New York in the mid-1980s, is by no means a cookbook, although virtually every one of its chapters topped off with a simple yet elegant and colorful recipe. Before us is a real, time-tested literary monument of history and culture that has gathered a huge army of admirers. A monument to an entire civilization, first formed on distant shores thanks to the efforts of the “third wave” of Russian emigration, and then surprisingly organically merged into the world and system that was born in new Russia. Weil and Genis again and again amaze the reader with the accuracy of their observations and brilliant erudition. Their essays are devoted, as it becomes clearer as you read, not so much to Russian cuisine, but to the Russians themselves (in the broadest, “geopolitical” sense of the word) people, Russian life and Russian times. And the fact that each of these witty essays also offers us a purely gastronomic discovery is an additional gift prepared for us by generous authors.