About the book: 2014 / Ancient manuscripts, memoirs of contemporaries, secrets and discoveries await you on the pages of this unrealistic story. Russian cooking has always existed in close contact with the cuisines of other countries. What is primordially ours and what is borrowed—the authors of the book tried to solve this riddle. In it you will find fascinating investigations into the fate of dishes and products. Stories about how they came into our kitchen. How, over the centuries, the similarities between the culinary traditions of different peoples became obvious.