Darra Goldstein is the Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian, Emerita, at Williams College and founding editor of Gastronomica. She is author of six award-winning cookbooks, including Beyond the North Wind: Russia in Recipes and Lore.

"Brief, but enlightening. . . . Deeply appreciative of Russian cuisine . . .  and the ability of Russian cooks to take whatever was available and turn it into something edible and memorable."

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction1 The Land and Its Flavor2 Hardship and Hunger3 Hospitality and ExcessCoda: Post-Soviet RussiaAcknowledgments Suggestions for Further ReadingIndex

Darra Goldstein is the Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian, Emerita, at Williams College and founding editor of Gastronomica. She is author of six award-winning cookbooks, including Beyond the North Wind: Russia in Recipes and Lore.

"Brief, but enlightening. . . . Deeply appreciative of Russian cuisine . . .  and the ability of Russian cooks to take whatever was available and turn it into something edible and memorable."

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction1 The Land and Its Flavor2 Hardship and Hunger3 Hospitality and ExcessCoda: Post-Soviet RussiaAcknowledgments Suggestions for Further ReadingIndex