..". the specificity and breadth of this work] makes it unique.... lively reading... particularly recommended for academic collections with a strong focus in Russian history." Library Journal
..". a remarkable new collection of essays... The book reads like a literary hybrid of cookbook, historical treatise, and novella; its subject is, literally, the essence of life itself.... Glants and Toomre deserve further praise for the book s consistent, animated directness of style." The Boston Phoenix
This sparkling collection of thirteen original essays gives surprising insights into...
..". the specificity and breadth of this work] makes it unique.... lively reading... particularly recommended for academic collections with a stro...
"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
"Classic Russian Cooking 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
"This is a delicious book, and Indiana University Press has served it up beautifully." -Russian...
"Joyce Toomre... has accomplished an enormous task, fully on a par with the original author's slave labor. Her extensive preface and her detailed a...
