Food in Russian history and culture
By: edited by Musya Glants and Joyce Toomre.
Contributors: Glants, Musya, 1934-; Toomre, Joyce Stetson.
Series: Indiana-Michigan series in Russian and East European studies
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Food habits -- Russia (Federation) -- History; Cookery, Russian -- History; Russia (Federation) -- Social life and customs
Description: This Collection of Original Essays gives surprising insights into what foodways reveal about Russia's history and culture from Kievan times to the present. A wide array of sources - including chronicles, diaries, letters, police records, poems, novels, folklore, paintings, and cookbooks - help to interpret the moral and spiritual role of food in Russian culture.

Stovelore in Russian folklife, fasting in Russian peasant culture, food as power in Dostoevsky's fiction, Tolstoy and vegetarianism, restaurants in early Soviet Russia, Soviet cookery and cookbooks, and food as art in Soviet paintings are among the topics discussed in this appealing volume.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.