Do you know Russian cuisine? What can be found on the tables of this vast country, which unfurls its great forests and steppes from the borders of Europe all the way to the Pacific Ocean? Flavors vary across this colossal territory, but a taste for soup, fish, the divine potato and stuffed pancakes can be found everywhere.

In these pages, spiced up with entertaining anecdotes from Russian history and daily life in the USSR, Pavel Spiridonov offers us access to the tastes of his childhood, which he spent in Saint Petersburg. With easy-to-find products, he presents 36 stunning recipes, from borsch to Beef Stroganoff, from beet salad to pastries, as well as such western Asian dishes from Georgia and Armenia as dolmas and Tkemali sauce.

36 easy and inexpensive Russian recipes that don’t require complicated or hard-to-find ingredients. The recipes have been illustrated by Nicolas Delaroche, a young photographer who studied at the Lausanne School of Art.?