Hi, how are you?
These days, it's gotten colder. So, the season of the one-pot meal is coming!
I love one-pot meals. I especially like kimchi nabe!
Anyway, I want to try many kinds of one-pot meals in this winter.
Today, I'm going to write about the book I'm reading.
I read 2 sections of Food in Russian History and Culture, so I totally read 3 sections so far.
The first section, "2. Food in Rus' Primary Chronicle", is written about the food Russian ate at that time.
It is said that People in Russia ate mainly the mixture of grains and drank the diluted honey water.
But, to be honest, it was difficult for me to understand the whole contents… I felt a little boring…
On the other hand, the second section, "3. Food in Catherinian St. Petersburg", was more interesting for me!
This section was written about the typical food eaten by each social classes at that time.
The rich and nobility ate variegated diets, such as fresh fruits; apples,pears, lemons, and watermelons, butter, bacon, and wines and brandies, which were imported from Europe.
The working people got food from the markets which sell frozen carcasses of various animals, including cattle, deer, pigs, sheep, hares, geese, ducks, chickens, and wild fowl, and cheeses, coffee, and the basic vegetables; cabbage, beets, onions, carrots, radishes and turnips.
Moreover, in Russian food culture, cereal is a staple of the Russian diet for centuries.
I found interesting parts of this section. It's that there were two types of restaurants in St. Petersburg, kharchevnia and traktir.
The kharchevnia is a restaurant where the common people took their meals and was popular in the northeastern-most distinct of Russia.
The traktir is a kind of disturbed place. Fights and other minor disturbances often happened.
The difference between these two restaurants is the kharchevnia served only food and not drink and the traktir made the list of rules, including prohibited items, for a their catering to people of the better sort.
Through reading these sections, I could find some interesting features of Russian food culture.
I want to read it with giving a pace a little more.
Russian food is inreresting topic because I can image just borsch about Russian meals lol. I can't believe the main food is the mixture of grains and the main bevetage is the diluted honey water, too :( I'm looking forward to your post.
返信削除It's curious that in the "traktir" fights often occurred, but they catered to a "better sort" of people. What sorts of things were prohibited there?
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