Warning: Undefined array key "" in /home3/russianp/public_html/books/fullBookDetails.php on line 79
Warning: Undefined array key "" in /home3/russianp/public_html/books/fullBookDetails.php on line 82
Warning: Undefined array key "" in /home3/russianp/public_html/books/fullBookDetails.php on line 85
Москва: Inter-Verso, 2001 286 p. [8 ill.] pbk. 12 x 19.5 cm ISBN: 5852170127 Язык: Русский
William Pokhlebkin (d. 2000), a famous Russian historian with wide spectrum of professional interests, devoted about forty years to studying Russian cuisine and cooking. In this study he answers to the question of the International Arbitration Court whether vodka was really born in Russia. The book is about the Russian history of vodka and its predecessors production in the 18th-20th centuries, including its economic, cultural, linguistic and gastronomical aspects. Subject index. Bibliographic references.