A year of Russian feasts / Catherine Cheremeteff Jones ; illustrations by Barbara Stott McCoy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Catherine Cheremeteff.

Contributor:

Chef Fritz Blank Culinary Archive and Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Culinary Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooking, Russian.

Food habits--Russia (Federation).

Food habits.

Russia (Federation).

Russia (Federation)--Social life and customs.

Manners and customs.

Genre:

Cookbooks.

Penn Provenance:

Blank, Fritz (bookplate) (donor)

Physical Description:

192 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bethesda, Md. : Jellyroll Press, [2002]

Summary:

Equal parts travel memoir and cookbook, A Year of Russian Feasts combines Catherine Jones's warm, insightful writing style with her sensitive approach to discovering her family's heritage and its cuisine. Jones takes the reader on an unforgettable journey to her private Russia featuring celebrations, seasons, and people. Her forty recipes highlight Russia's finest dishes.

Contents:

Vegetarian dinner in a communal apartment

Dinner with a well-to-do Russian family

Spring and the Russian bliny festival

In the Danilovsky Monastery kitchen

Orthodox Easter services and an Easter feast at the Lebedev's

Tea with Antonina in Strogino

A birthday party at Viktor's

Russian summers: a time for preserving the bounty

Autumn and mushroom hunting

Valentina's baptism

Russian winters

Celebrating Christmas past and present

A black-tie New Year's Eve celebration

Russian weddings

What Russians drink.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-186) and index.

Local Notes:

Blank Collection copy has bookplate of Chef Fritz Blank.

ISBN:

0971601305

9780971601307

OCLC:

50406830