Russian Cooking

Art of Lithuanian Cooking

“Art of Lithuanian Cooking is a culinary showcase of palate-pleasing regional delights.” –The Midwest Book Review “Here is a collection of Lithuanian recipes that will be welcome on any table.” –The International Cookbook Revue This favorite Hippocrene cookbook includes over 150 authentic Lithuanian recupes such as “Fresh Cucumber Soup,” “Lithuanian Meat Pockets,” “Hunter’s Stew,” “Potato Zeppelins,” as well …

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Russian Cuisine: Traditional and Contemporary Home Cooking

Discover the fascinating details of Russian history, culture and eating habits and enjoy the tasty delights of the vast country that spans through 11 time zones and brings together more than 180 ethnic groups. Detailing the evolution and development of traditional Russian cooking, this book gives a better understanding of the foods that are now known as classical …

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The Veselka Cookbook: Recipes and Stories from the Landmark Restaurant in New York’s East Village

For more than fifty years, customers have crowded into Veselka, a cozy Ukrainian coffee shop in New York City’s East Village, to enjoy pierogi, borscht, goulash, and many other unpretentious favorites. Veselka (rainbow in Ukrainian) has grown from a simple newsstand serving soup and sandwiches into a twenty-four-hour gathering place, without ever leaving its original location on the …

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Cooking in Russia – Volume 3: Focus on Food Chemistry

In this third installment the author expounds on the principles of organic chemistry as it relates to food science, interwoven with more than 50 detailed recipes, most of which have accompanying online videos. This unusual book fills a niche that is sorely missing in the literature. Namely, how specific flavors are produced by chemical reactions during cooking and …

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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing

A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations        Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeered Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew …

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CCCP COOK BOOK: True Stories of Soviet Cuisine

As the Soviet Union struggled along the path to communism, food shortages were commonplace, and both Party authorities and Soviet citizens had to apply every ounce of ingenuity to maximize often-inadequate resources. The stories and recipes contained in the CCCP Cook Book reflect these turbulent times: from basic subsistence meals consumed by the average citizen (like okroshka, a …

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Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook

From the robust foods of the Baltic states to the delicately perfumed pilafs of Azerbaijan, from borscht and beef stroganoff to the grains and yogurts of Georgia, Anya von Bremzen and John Welchman take Westerners on a spectacular tour of the many and varied cuisines of the fifteen former Soviet republics. Anya von Bremzen, a native Muscovite, …

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Samarkand: Recipes & Stories from Central Asia & The Caucasus

Over hundreds of years, various ethnic groups have passed through this city, sharing and influencing each other’s cuisine and leaving their culinary stamp. Samarkand is a love letter to Central Asia and the Caucasus, containing travel essays, beautiful photography and recipes that are little known in the West that have been expertly adapted for the home cook. There …

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