Author: Glants, Musya & Toomre, Joyce; editors:
Title: Food in Russian History and Culture
Description: Bloomington, Indiana University Press, (1997). orig.cloth. 24x15cm, xxvii,250 pp. Minor rubbing. A removed-label mark to rear cover. VG. ¶ Contains 13 papers. Includes: S. Tempest "Stovelore in Russian Folklife"; H.G. Lunt "Food in the Rus' Primary Chronicle"; G.E. Munro "Food in Catherinian St. Petersburg"; C.A. Frierson "Forced Hunger & Rational Restraint in the Russian Peasant Diet: One Populist's Vision"; L. Heretz " The Practice & Significance of Fasting in Russian Peasant Culture at the Turn of the Century"; R.D. Le Blanc "Tolstoy's Way of No Flesh: Abstinence,Vegetarianism & Christian Physiology"; D. Goldstein "Is Hay Only for Horses? Highlights of Russian Vegetarianism at the Turn of the Century"; R.D. LeBlanc "An Appetite for Power: Predators, Carnivores & Cannibals in Dostoevsky's Fiction"; P. Chester "Strawberries & Chocolate: Tzvetaeva, Mandelstam & the Plight of the Hungry Poet"; M. Borrero "Communal Dining & State Cafeterias in Moscow & Petrograd, 1917-191"; H: & R. Rothstein "The Beginnings of Soviet Culinary Arts"; J. Toomre "Food & National Identity in Soviet Armenia"; M. Glants "Food as Art: Painting in Late Soviet Russia".

Keywords: Russian Cultural History, Culinary, Cooking, Food, Imperial Russia, Soviet Union, Literary Literature, Folk Folklore, Peasant Culture