Food in Russian History and Culture or Cooking with the Food Chat Family

Food in Russian History and Culture

Author: Musya Glants

This Collection of Original Essays gives surprising insights into what foodways reveal about Russia's history and culture from Kievan times to the present. A wide array of sources - including chronicles, diaries, letters, police records, poems, novels, folklore, paintings, and cookbooks - help to interpret the moral and spiritual role of food in Russian culture. Stovelore in Russian folklife, fasting in Russian peasant culture, food as power in Dostoevsky's fiction, Tolstoy and vegetarianism, restaurants in early Soviet Russia, Soviet cookery and cookbooks, and food as art in Soviet paintings are among the topics discussed in this appealing volume.

Library Journal

Fourteen scholars have contributed 13 essays, each impeccably documented with endnotes, on the place of food ("foodways") in Russian history and culture. Edited by Glants, a specialist on 19th- and 20th-century Russian painting, and Toomre, a Slavicist and culinary historian, the book spans over ten centuries, from Kievan Rus to the present. Relying on sources as diverse as personal journals, police records, paintings, poems, and cookbooks, the writers examine changing attitudes about foodmoral, ideological, and spiritualthrough the eyes of peasants as well as tyrants. Recent works have dealt with the relationship between food and power (Sidney Mintz, Tasting Food, Tasting Freedom, LJ 8/96), but certainly the specificity and breadth of this one makes it unique. Although lively reading, it is particularly recommended for academic collections with a strong focus in Russian history.Wendy Miller, Lexington P.L., Ky.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Stovelore in Russian Folklife	1
2	Food in the Rus' Primary Chronicle	15
3	Food in Catherinian St. Petersburg	31
4	Forced Hunger and Rational Restraint in the Russian Peasant Diet: One Populist's Vision	49
5	The Practice and Significance of Fasting in Russian Peasant Culture at the Turn of the Century	67
6	Tolstoy's Way of No Flesh: Abstinence, Vegetarianism, and Christian Physiology	81
7	Is Hay Only for Horses? Highlights of Russian Vegetarianism at the Turn of the Century	103
8	An Appetite for Power: Predators, Carnivores, and Cannibals in Dostoevsky's Fiction	124
9	Strawberries and Chocolate: Tsvetaeva, Mandelstam, and the Plight of the Hungry Poet	146
10	Communal Dining and State Cafeterias in Moscow and Petrograd, 1917-1921	162
11	The Beginnings of Soviet Culinary Arts	177
12	Food and National Identity in Soviet Armenia	195
13	Food as Art: Painting in Late Soviet Russia	215
	Contributors	239
	Index	243

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Cooking with the Food Chat Family

Author: Dawn Marie Schrandt

From all over the world food chatters have come together and selected their finest recipes for the benefit of people suffering from Cystic Fibrosis. All the recipes in this book are from the kitchens of all the food chat friends and consist of their families' favorite recipes. We hope that you all enjoy using this book and feel good knowing that all proceeds go to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in hopes that a cure will be found in the not too distant future.