Russian Cuisine in Exile

By Pyotr Vail

2002

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Russkaja kukhnja v izgnanii - sbornik ocherkov i esse na gastronomicheskie temy, napisannyj Petrom Vajlem i Aleksandrom Genisom v Nju-Jorke v seredine 1980? kh, - eto ni v koem sluchae ne povarennaja kniga, khotja prakticheski kazhdaja iz ee glav uvenchana prostym, no izjaschnym i koloritnym kulinarnym retseptom. Pered nami - nastojaschij, proverennyj vremenem i sobravshij ogromnuju armiju pochitatelej literaturnyj pamjatnik istorii i kultury. Monument tseloj tsivilizatsii, snachala slozhivshejsja na dalekikh beregakh blagodarja usilijam "tretej volny" russkoj emigratsii, a potom udivitelno organichno vlivshejsja v mir i stroj, chto narodilsja v novoj Rossii.Vajl i Genis snova i snova porazhajut chitatelja tochnostju nabljudenij i blestjaschej eruditsiej. Ikh ocherki posvjascheny, kak stanovitsja vse jasnee po mere chtenija, ne stolko russkoj kukhne, skolko samim russkim (v samom shirokom, "geopoliticheskom" smysle etogo slova) ljudjam, russkoj zhizni i russkim vremenam. A to, chto kazhdoe iz etikh ostroumnykh esse predlagaet nam esche i sugubo gastronomicheskoe otkrytie, - dopolnitelnyj podarok, prigotovlennyj nam schedrymi avtorami.

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Pyotr Vail

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Pyotr Lvovich Vail was a Russian author, journalist, essayist and deputy director of Radio Liberty's Russian service. Born in Riga 1949, he studied at the Moscow Polygraphic Institute. He moved to the United States in 1977, joining the radio station in the mid-1980s. He moved to the Prague headquarters in 1995. Vail's best-known books include Genii mesta (The Genius of Place) and Stikhi pro menya (Poems About Me). He produced several books with Alexander Genis, including Russkaya kukhnya v izgnanii (Russian Cuisine in Exile) and 60-e. Mir sovetskogo cheloveka (The '60s. The World of Soviet People). He co-edited Iosif Brodsky: trudy i dni (Joseph Brodsky: Works and Days), about Nobel Prize-winning poet Joseph Brodsky, with Lev Losev. He died in a Prague hospital.