Abstract
Elena Molokhovets's A Gift to Young Housewives, first published in 1861, became the Bible of cooking and household management for generations of middle- and upper-class Russian women up until the revolution [End Page 203] in 1917. Even after the collapse of the tsarist autocracy, copies of this book circulated and were at times copied by hand. Then, in 1989 it reemerged in a number of reprinted Russian editions. Joyce Toomre of the Russian Research Center at Harvard and lecturer in culinary history at Radcliffe College has produced a superb translation and edition of this classic work. It is not only great fun to read and practical to use, but also it is immensely revealing both of Russian cultural history and as a comparative foil for understanding American culture.
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