Russkaya kuhnya v izgnanii

"Russkaya kuhnya v izgnanii" - sbornik ocherkov i esse na gastronomicheskie temy, napisannyy Petrom Vaylem i Aleksandrom Genisom v N'yu-Yorke v seredine 1980-h, - eto ni v koem sluchae ne povarennaya kniga, hotya prakticheski kazhdaya iz ee glav uvenchana prostym, no izyaschnym i koloritnym kulinarnym receptom. Pered nami - nastoyaschiy, proverennyy vremenem i sobravshiy ogromnuyu armiyu pochitateley literaturnyy pamyatnik istorii i kul'tury. Monument celoy civilizacii, snachala slozhivsheysya na dalekih beregah blagodarya usiliyam "tret'ey volny" russkoy emigracii, a potom udivitel'no organichno vlivsheysya v mir i stroy, chto narodilsya v novoy Rossii. Vayl' i Genis snova i snova porazhayut chitatelya tochnost'yu nablyudeniy i blestyaschey erudiciey. Ih ocherki posvyascheny, kak stanovitsya vse yasnee po mere chteniya, ne stol'ko russkoy kuhne, skol'ko samim russkim (v samom shirokom, "geopoliticheskom" smysle etogo slova) lyudyam, russkoy zhizni i russkim vremenam.