num_pages: 200
description: Celebrated food scholar Darra Goldstein takes readers on a vivid tour of history and culture through Russian cuisine. The Kingdom of Rye unearths the foods and flavors of the Russian land. Preeminent food studies scholar Darra Goldstein offers readers a concise engaging and gorgeously crafted story of Russian cuisine and culture. This story demonstrates how national identity is revealed through foodand how people know who they are by what they eat together. The Kingdom of Rye examines the Russians' ingenuity in overcoming hunger a difficult climate and a history of political hardship while deciphering Russia's social structures from within. This is a domestic history of Russian food that serves up a deeper history demonstrating that the wooden spoon is mightier than the scepter. 
language: English
title: The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food (Volume 77)
publisher: University of California Press