An unusual approach to Russian classical literature—through the kitchen—shows, in the book “From the History of Russian Culinary Culture,” the famous author-cook V. V. Pokhlebkin. A story about the favorite dishes of the characters of Fonvizin, Pushkin, Ostrovsky, and Chekhov allows you to discover these authors anew and learn a lot of interesting things about an important side of life of our ancestors.
Contents:
From the author
Instead of a preface
Introductory chapter
Fonvizin D. I.
The Minor
The Brigadier
Choosing a tutor
List of dishes and drinks mentioned in Fonvizin’s works
Krylov I. A.
Podshchipha
Pie
Fables
List of dishes and drinks mentioned in Krylov’s works
Consolidated list
Zagoskin M. N.
Consolidated list of dishes and drinks mentioned in Zagoskin’s works
Griboedov A. S.
Pushkin A. S.
Boris Godunov
Eugene Onegin
List of dishes and drinks mentioned in Pushkin’s works
Culinary setting in Pushkin’s prose works
List of dishes and drinks mentioned in Pushkin’s prose
Other uses of culinary settings
Consolidated list of dishes and drinks mentioned in Pushkin’s works
Belinsky V. G.
Lermontov M. Yu.
The Maskerade
Gogol N. V.
The Inspector General
The Marriage
List of dishes and drinks mentioned in Gogol’s works
Turgenev I. S.
Mey L. A.
A Feast
Pskov Ladies
List of dishes and drinks mentioned in Mey’s works
Tolstoy A. K.
Sukhost-Kobylin A. V.
Ostrovsky A. N.
Culinary vocabulary in Ostrovsky
List of dishes and drinks mentioned in Ostrovsky’s works
Tolstoy L. N.
The Power of Darkness
The Fruits of Enlightenment
Living Corpse
List of dishes and drinks mentioned in Leo Tolstoy’s works
Naidenov S. A.
List of dishes and drinks mentioned in Naidenov’s play
Chekhov A. P.
Wedding
Ivanov
The Seagull
Uncle Vanya
Three Sisters
List of dishes and drinks mentioned in Three Sisters
The Cherry Orchard
Consolidated list of dishes and drinks mentioned in Chekhov’s works
Instead of an epilogue
Culinary repertoire of pre-Pushkin drama of the late 18th—early 19th centuries
Culinary repertoire in post-Pushkin drama (before Ostrovsky)
Culinary repertoire of contemporaries and followers of Ostrovsky
Culinary repertoire of pre-Pushkin drama of the late 19th—early 20th centuries
Consolidated culinary repertoire of the late 18th—early 20th centuries