Teaching, treating and feeding has long been considered the most honorable occupation. In France in the last century, a craftsman could not become a nobleman, but an exception was made for cooks, since their work was equated with art. The work of a talented chef is close to the work of a painter and sculptor; it requires artistic taste, a sense of light and form. With a kind word we must remember the Russian chefs who worked in the darkened basements of taverns and restaurants, these unknown workers who left us a legacy of culinary art. Without this inheritance, our modern cooking would not exist, and there would not be those dishes that are now the PRIDE OF RUSSIAN CUISINE.