Russian cuisine in exile. Vile P.L., Genis A.A.

“Russian cuisine in exile”-a collection of essays and an essay on gastronomic topics written by Peter Vile and Alexander Genis in New York in the mid-1980s-this is by no means a table book, although almost every of its chapters Crowned with a simple, but elegant and colorful culinary recipe. Before us is a real, time -tested and gathered a huge army of admirers, a literary monument of history and culture. The monument of the whole civilization, which first developed on distant shores thanks to the efforts of the “third wave” of Russian emigration, and then surprisingly organically poured into the world and system, which was born in the new Russia. observations and brilliant erudition. Their essays are devoted to, as it becomes more clearly as it is read, not so much Russian cuisine as the Russian (in the broadest, “geopolitical” sense of the word) to people, Russian life and Russian times. And the fact that each of these witty essays also offers us a purely gastronomic discovery is an additional gift prepared for us with generous authors.