Russian Cuisine

The present-day notions about Russian cuisine are markedly diluted by fashionable foreign influences. For example, the latest fashion trend is "new Russian cuisine" that strives to break out beyond the limits of authentic Russian culinary art and is an emerging market demand. All fashionable trends, however, fade away quickly, whereas a demand for true things is stable and not dependent on time. A simplified approach of the present-day man in the street takes out from the huge cultural layer of traditional Russian cuisine only most popular national dishes, such as "borscht and kasha", revealing no much interest in the amazingly rich culinary heritage of our ancestors. We recommend this magnificent scholar's legacy for reading and thorough study to the contemporary Pleiades of ambitious cooks, for whom the Russian language and culture are native.