An abundant food tradition developed when Mennonites from eastern Europe settled in the Ukraine. These people, who had migrated extensively because of religious persecution and economic pressures, blended their flavorful cooking with their new neighbor’s food. The result? Delectable Zwieback and Rollkuchen, Borschts of infinite variety, Peppernuts, and porzelkje. …
Blini, caviar, and borscht are familiar enough to many people, but what surprises might await us when we try ukha, khinkali, khachapuri, lahmadjo, or plov? Russia, Ukraine, and Caucasus offer a wealth of culinary delicacies that are hardly known to us, a myriad of foods and flavors fed by the most diverse influences and cultures at the intersection …
40 Years in One Night – Hilarious True Adventures of a Restaurant Chef
If you’re already a fan of his many professional cooking videos, just wait until you get to know the guy behind the camera! Here’s an autobiography like nothing you’ve ever seen before. After having started out as one of the pioneers of the computer revolution in Silicon Valley, he left to follow his destiny of becoming a chef, …
The Best of Ukrainian Cuisine (Hippocrene International Cookbook Series)
This compendium of Ukrainian cookery contains more than just your typical babka and borshch–it features more than 200 authentic Ukranian recipes with the special touch that, until now, only a Ukrainian grandmother could provide. The Best of Ukrainian Cuisine gives away grandmother’s trade secrets, enabling cooks to create everything from a simple salad to an entire Ukrainian …
Azerbaijan, the land of fire’, is full of infinite beauty and treasures; moreover it offers a wide variety of cultural attractions. As part of the South Caucasus, the country lies between the Mountains and Asia Minor and the Black and Caspian Seas. Just as diverse as the landscape is Azerbaijani cuisine: hearty lamb dishes, sticky sweet baklava, and …
With this handy, easy-to-follow guide you can create over 200 hearty flavorful dishes that have delighted the Russian palate for generations. Here are complete recipes for such taste-tempting traditional fare as borsch, shashlik of salmon, Russian meatloaf with rice zrazy, Russian squab in sour cream, potato kotlety, pirozhki and pirogi, blini, the traditional Easter dessert paskha, and many …
Pirogi, vodka and blini are familiar enough to many people, but what surprises might await us when we try ukha, khachapuri, or plov? Russia, aind the former Russian Empire, offer a wealth of culinary delicacies that are hardly known to us, a myriad of foods and flavors fed by the most diverse influences and cultures at the intersection …
Travel to postSoviet Siberia and the Russian Far East with author Sharon Hudgins as she takes readers on a personal adventure through the Asian side of Russia—an area closed to most Westerners and many Russians prior to the 1990s. Even today, few people from the West have ridden the TransSiberian railroad in winter, stood on the frozen surface …
Basic Borsch includes beef, assorted vegetables, potatoes, sour cream and tomato puree; Moscow Borsch engulfs bacon and one more beet. Vegetables for stew are apt to be fried before adding; and how about little pies with fish and noodle filling, egg and onion? The authors supply recipes for rich, many-textured dishes concocted for icy Siberian nights. A bit …
Centuries of mysterious Russian history have produced a unique Russian cuisine. Generations of Russians experimented with new spices and ingredients that came from different parts of the world. Russian Cuisine gracefully combines recipes of two different continents-Europe and Asia-to create unique, immense flavors.Peter the Great; Ivan the Terrible; Kathryn the Great; and Nicolas the Second, the last Russian …