Review: Everybody's Eyes are on the Russian Olympics: food to go with it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 22, 2014
Elizabeth T. Torrence opens the kitchen to the smells and tastes of fine vegetarian cookery with this book devoted to Russian vegetarian recipes. Known to be in the forefront of healthy diets, these recipes are not only easy to prepare, but each recipe gives a list of ingredients to prepare ahead of time, well written directions on how to prepare the dishes, and each dish is accompanied with a color photograph of just how the finished product will look. The taste test is up to you!Some of the recipes included are Russian Potato Latkes, Fried Eggs With Onion, Russian Style Salad, Russian Beet Salad, Russian Tomato Salad, Mushroom Stroganoff on Toast, Mushroom Casserole, Russian Cheese Pancakes, Russian Carrot Tart, Russian Strawberry Treat, Russian Fruit Salad, Russian Country Coffee, Russian Tea, Beet and Ginger Kvass, Cucumber Gimlet  and many more. You'd never tell by the titles that these are health-oriented foods, but they definitely are.For nutritious and healthy and tasty dishes you can't go wrong with the variety in Elizabeth T. Torrence's book. Grady Harp, January 14