What is our life? Food! How to make your life delicious. Recipes for non -professionals and chefs. Plotnikov M.

If Dovlatov wrote a culinary book, it would be like that of Mikhail Plotnikov: brilliant, ironic, stylistically impeccable. Of course, “What is our life? Food!" - More than just a book of recipes. This is a fascinating reading for all ages. After all, its author, the legendary host of the popular show “Dinner with a provincial” on the radio “Silver Rain” and “Baryshnya and Culinary” on the TV Center channel, has not only phenomenal culinary skills, but also philological education and richest life experience. P>

readers will have to move in time and space: for example, to the Soviet Volgograd, where Mikhail Plotnikov’s happy childhood passed. It is from childhood that the best recipes for mom's potato puree, lecho and baked fish, stuffed with vegetables. Then, together with the author, we will go on traveling to France, Hungary, Israel, Thailand, Syria, Georgia, Udmurtia, Ukraine and we will prepare the most delicious chicken in honey, eggs, chopped liver with a smalt, soup Tom Kha Gai, Muhammaru, a chicken. Grashuyuli and Sacely, mushroom okroshka and, of course, borsch. And we will also set fire to the chacha, taste fresh figs and pure vanillin, sculpt cutlets and dumplings, come up with night pasta and experiment in every way. Plotnikov generously shares experience, knowledge, good mood and delicious little things. Although the most “tasty” in this book is perhaps the language that the reader, without exaggeration, has to enjoy.