Katish Our Russian Cook

Name: Katish Our Russian Cook
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ISBN: 9780375757617

ISBN-10: 0375757619

ISBN-13: 9780375757617

Edition: 2001

Authors: Wanda Frolov, Marion Cunningham, Henry Stahlhut

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Katish, round as a plum and neat as a pin, arrived in Los Angeles as a Russian emigre in the 1920s. As Wanda L. Frolov remembers, her house was brought to life by this humble genius of the kitchen, whose English was unpredictable and whose love of company (especially that of the downtrodden) was unstoppable. Soon Katish was nourishing the bellies and the souls of a happy throng with her blini and pilaf, her shashlik and borscht. On the side, she brokered marriages and started bank accounts for new emigres, presiding over all from her spotless pastry table. Katish offers deliciously simple Russian country cooking enveloped in a warm and cheering narrative, tender as the crust of Katish's…

Book details

List price: $11.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 6/26/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.330
Language: English

Wanda L. Frolov wrote forGourmetmagazine for many years. Her stories of Katish first appeared there and were later gathered into a book published in 1947.