The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food by Darra Goldstein illustrated Voices from the Soviet Edge

Voices from the Soviet Edge connects Leningrad and Moscow to transnational trends of core-periphery movement and marks them as global cities

For the first time this book presents not only accurate and beautiful renditions of these poems in English

documenting buildings constructed from the 1950s until the fall of the USSR

it was hugely popular with Soviet soldiers

and Pavel Pepperstein

The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food by Darra Goldstein illustrated Voices from the Soviet EdgeThe Kingdom of Rye unearths the foods and flavours of the Russian land. Preeminent food studies scholar Darra Goldstein offers readers a concise, engaging and gorgeously crafted story of Russian cuisine and culture. This story demonstrates how national identity is revealed through food and how people know who they are by what they eat together. The Kingdom of Rye examines the Russians' ingenuity in overcoming hunger, a difficult climate and a history