This has been an exciting week for me on the publishing front. Academic Studies Press sent out marketing postcards for our book, which is coming out in about a month. The cover of the new book. Note the cool design elements! I have read and loved this book for thirty years, and I've been working with one or another version of the essays with students for almost five. Now the full translation of Russian Cuisine in Exile will finally offer English-speaking audiences a chance to explore these forty-four essays (with recipes) for themselves. Original Cover In 1987 Pyotr Vail and Alexander Genis collected their columns into a little book. Russian Cuisine in Exile for me evokes Russian Literature in Exile ( Русская литература в изгнании ), a book by Prof. Gleb Struve originally published in 1956 (and never translated into English, to my knowledge). Struve, who by that time was faculty at Berkeley, was a part of the first-wave of emigration after the Russian Revolution w
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