Nothing beats a traditional Russian meal cooked at home. These 10 Russian cookbooks will provide lists of ingredients for traditional Russian recipes as well as demonstrate how they are prepared. You'll be making blini, borshcht, and perozhki in your own kitchen before you know it, and family and guests will love you for it.
1. Food and Cooking of Russia
Over 200 Russian recipes are featured in this cookbook. The paperback version was just published in April 2006. The author lived in the former USSR for a year; the recipes in this book were collected during this time. Interspersed throughout the recipes are tidbits about Russian history and culture.
2. The Best of Russian Cooking
300 easy-to-follow Russian food recipes by Alexandra Kropotkin.3. Please to the Table - A Russian Cookbook
The quintessential Russian cookbook, Please to the Table is an award-winning classic of Russian cookbooks. The recipes within this Russian cookbook take the chef through Russia and to parts of the former USSR like Ukraine and Azerbaijan. By Anya Von Bremzan and John Welchman.4. The Russian Heritage Cookbook
The Russian Heritage Cookbook, by Lynn Visson, is a collection of 360 traditional family recipes from Russian emigres to the United States. Includes recipes for every day as well as for special occasions.5. Russian Cookbook
This book of 200 recipes have ingredients and insructions adapted for American cooks. This is a very basic Russian cookbook complete with a glossary of terms.6. Russian Cuisine
By Tatiana Oborina Lawson. Many of the dishes described in this book are over 500 years old but are still popular in contemporary Russia. Many of the recipes in this Russian cookbook will be classics, but others will be new to the beginning Russian cook.7. Classic Russian Cooking: Elena Molkhovets' a Gift to Young Housewives
Classic Russian Cooking: Elena Molokhovets' a Gift to Young Housewives is translated by Joyce Toomre for English-speaking cooks. This classic, banned in Russia, is full of recipes from Imperial times. Both a history book and a Russian cookbook, Classic Russian Cooking is a great gift . . . for anyone!8. A Year of Russian Feasts
This book, by Catherine Cheremeteff Jones, is a combination of memoir and cookbook. Full of recipes passed down by her own family members and collected on her travels. An interesting read as well as a practical Russian cookbook.9. Tastes and Tales from Russia
By Alla Danishevsky. This delightful book combines folklore and recipes, so every meal can be served with a story. Users of this book find the recipes easy to follow and the tales great to read while waiting for the food to cook.10. Russian Cooking
By Robin Howe. Originally published in the '60's, this book has been republished with a new forward. A little out-of-date, but still useful and interesting as a part of Russian cuisine's long history.