Catherine Cheremeteff Jones, the granddaughter of a great-great grandson of Czar Nicholas I, lived in Russia in the early '90s, and absorbed the culinary traditions of the place. Her memoir highlights the Russian Orthodox feasts that dot the year and the unchanging traditions of the foods that accom ...
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An illustrated, social history of corn discusses the people who, for seven centuries, have planted, eaten, worshipped, processed, and profited from corn, also describing its reaches into commerce, religion, poetry, and alcohol. Reprint.