Ekaterina Rozhdestvenskaya is a writer, a photo artist, and the daughter of the famous poet Robert Rozhdestvensky. “You have before you a book about the beautiful and inseparable part of my life—travel and food. About the cities I visited over these five years, about the roads that never seemed to end, about the people I decided to remember, and also about the recipes I collected everywhere. But I must warn you—these are not very tolerant notes. Tolerance is very fashionable today, but, sorry, I’m from a completely different ‘batch.’ I write the way it is: I call ‘black’ black, and something ugly—ugly, and I don’t intend to adapt to everyone or to any specific person. I come from Soviet childhood, when many things were different and were called by their real names. And if I nonetheless offended someone, I ask forgiveness.”