Volume 40, Number 17 · October 21, 1993
The Age of Innocence
By Tatyana Tolstaya, Translated from the Russian by Jamey Gambrell
Classic Russian Cooking: Elena Molokhovets' 'A Gift to Young Housewives'
translated and introduced by Joyce Toomre
Indiana University Press, 680 pp., $39.95
All Russians are familiar with Lenin's famous saying: 'Every cook should know how to run the government.' One wonders what Lenin, who never boiled an egg for himself, could possibly have known about cooks? There was, however, one cook in Russia whose ability to govern her own diminutive empire Lenin himself might have envied.
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