San Rafael Cook Book or Taste of Dreams

San Rafael Cook Book

Author: Applewood Books

This 1906 cookbook was compiled by the Ladies of San Rafael, California.

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Taste of Dreams: An Obsession with Russia and Caviar

Author: Vanora Bennett

The Taste of Dreams is both a quest for the romantic Russia of the author's dreams, and a tale of amazement as she discovers and gets caught up in the new, anarchic Russia emerging from its Soviet constraints. At its heart is the story of caviar: beluga, the rarest type of sturgeon, harvested from the Caspian Sea. It is now an endangered species, and no one knows how—or wants—to stop the plunder. People kill for it.

Library Journal

London Times correspondent Bennett (Crying Wolf) has a foreigner's knack for catching Russia's contradictions. From the cramped living conditions in a land so vast to the gourmand attitude in a country of rations and long lines, she knows the tension among the government, the land, and the people, and how all three shape one another. Part memoir and part travelog, this book captures a lot about Russia, not least the sense that there is always something vaguely menacing just beyond view: the low-level radiation in vegetables, a burst of random gunfire in the distance, a sudden governmental decision to devalue the ruble, the disappearance of friends. Russia is a hard place to explain to people who haven't been there, but Bennett gets the feel of it right. Recommended for both public and academic libraries of all sizes. Travis McDade, Ohio State Univ. Law Lib., Columbus Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.

Table of Contents:

1.	Dreams	1
2.	Three Tastes	9
3.	What Eating Caviar Feels Like	37
4.	No More Caviar for the Masses	53
5.	The Caviar Thieves	71
6.	In the Dollar Bubble	81
7.	South Down the River of Azart	113
8.	The Caspian, Where Sturgeon Come From	121
9.	A Coup on the Caviar Coast	147
10.	How Fish Die	177
11.	Getting Away	215
12.	A Different Kind of Egg	229
13.	Farewell to Dagestan	259
14.	Home	275