Princess Gregory: peculiarities of the national feast

Autobiographical epic masters of non-fiction Alexander Genis (the"Reverse address", "Kama Sutra scribe", "Pictures at an exhibition", "Guest") continues that culinary prose. One of the founders of the genre writes about food with the same passion, humor and love that about countries, books and people. "Of course Russian feast prefers that flows, but is not limited to them. Unprecedented repertoire of snacks and unheard of the stock of the soup makes the kitchen Russia is not poorer than her literature. The trouble is that both are bad translated. Most often, foreigners get "Princess Grisha" — so Ilf and Petrov dubbed Hollywood movies of Russian history" (Alexander Genis).