Darra Golstein's fascinating and deeply researched new book about Russian cuisine, Beyond the North Wind, deserves serious attention, but I have to admit that my initial response was to interpret it ...

Chef's Table restaurant in Moscow is a cozy space. There are about 20 seats at a horseshoe-shaped bar with a kitchen in the middle. It's a small room, but the man who runs this place has a big ...

Food and everything that surrounds it happens in a uniquely Russian way here in Russia. And that “Russian way” is different than a lot of us Americans expected. Kasha makes up a pretty large part of ...

Chef Bonnie Frumkin Morales named her restaurant after the word that saved her grandmother’s life: Kachka. The personal history Morales recounts in her first cookbook, “Kachka: A Return to Russian ...

The dishes that marked the Soviet era still have a strong pull on Russian sentiment (if not stomachs). A new book revisits these recipes, born, in... Food does much more than feed us — it tells the ...

Once again I'm so excited to have a new cookbook. My niece Tarah and her husband, Steve, live in a small Southern Illinois community, where in the center of town is the Russian Orthodox Church. My ...

The document has been developed by a working group on issues of popularization of Russian cuisine under Russia’s Industry and Trade Ministry, which has been submitted to executive authorities of ...

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