Cabbage and Caviar: A History of Food in Russia (Alison K. Smith) South providing a sumptuous visual banquet

providing a sumptuous visual banquet and historical document of two centuries of culinary traditions

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Cabbage and Caviar: A History of Food in Russia (Alison K. Smith) South providing a sumptuous visual banquetWhen people think of Russian food, they generally think either of the opulent luxury of the tsarist aristocracy or of post Soviet elites, signified above all by caviar, or on the other hand of poverty and hungerof cabbage and potatoes and porridge. Both of these visions have a basis in reality, but both are incomplete. The history of food and drink in Russia includes fasts and feasts, scarcity and, for some, at least, abundance. It includes dishes