Continues the autobiographic epic of master нон-фикшн Alexander Гениса ("Reverse address, "Kamasutra of bookman, "Pictures from an exhibition, "Guest) volume culinary prose. One of founders of this genre writes about a meal with the same passion, humour and love, that about countries, books and people."Certainly, the Russian feast prefers that flows, but not limited the name of the Extraordinary repertoire of appetizers and unheard of supply of soups do a kitchen To Russia not poorer than her literature. Trouble is in that, that both translated badly. Mostly "Princess Гришка" turns out for foreigners - so Ильф and Петров nicknamed the Hollywood films from Russian history (Alexander Генис).