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May 3, 2005
Soviet culinary relic
(Salat iz ovoschej i ryby - Fish and vegetable salad)
Images from a Soviet cookbook c. 1940s-50s, illustrating the eternal Russian obsession with garnishes, often exceeding the volume of what is actually to be eaten.
Posted by michele at May 3, 2005 5:31 PM
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My mom has such a book. It's a volume of an enormous size, with a lot of color illustrations (using those fancy color transfer techniques that produce pictures with this distinctive feeling) for a book published in 1961 or so. It had an epigraph:
Нормальная и здоровая еда есть еда с аппетитом, еда с испытыванием наслаждения.
Академик И.П. Павлов
Posted by: GweiLo at May 6, 2005 11:01 PM