Curriculum Vitae
Updated January 2024.
Education
Stanford University
Vassar College
Leningrad State Univ.
University of Helsinki
Bryn Mawr College
1974-1982
1969-1973
Summer 1973
Fall 1972
Spring 1972
Ph.D. 1983 (Slavic Languages & Literatures; Minor: Comparative Literature)
A.M. 1976 (same as above)
A.B. 1973 (Modern Languages:
Russian, German, French
Russian
Russian
Modern Languages
Professional Positions
Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian, Emerita, Williams College, 2017-
Founding Editor in Chief, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Food Studies, 2023-
Past
Willcox B. and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian, Williams College, 2012-2017
Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Russian, Williams College, 2006-2012
Founding Editor, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture (University of California Press); Editor-in-Chief 2001-2012
Series Editor, California Studies in Food and Culture, University of California Press, 1999-present
Food Editor, Russian Life magazine, 2002-2016
Editor in Chief, CURED magazine, 2016-2017
Other Professional Experience
Lead Scholar, “A Seat at the Table,” online course in Ashkenazi food developed for YIVO, 2019-2020 Consultant for Child-44, a film produced by Ridley Scott and directed by Daniel Espinosa, 2015
Cultural Envoy, US Department of State, Republic of Georgia, February 2013
Consultant, European Union Northern Dimension Initiative, 2011
Board of Directors, IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals), 2006-2008
Consultant, AgVANTAGE/USAID project on Georgian agriculture, 2007
Consultant on Food and Diversity, The Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France, 2002-2005
Chair, Department of German & Russian, Williams College, 1995-1998
Associate Professor of Russian, Williams College, 1990-1996
Visiting Professor of Russian, Amherst College, Fall 1994; Spring 1998; Spring 2007
Assistant Professor of Russian, Williams College, 1983-90
Adjunct Curator, Williams College Museum of Art, 1985-86
Teaching Fellow in Russian, Stanford University, 1976-77, 1979-80, 1981-82
Other Work Experience
U.S. State Department International Communications Agency Exhibit Guide and Interpreter for "Agriculture USA" in Kishinev, Moscow, and Rostov-on-Don, USSR, 1978-79
Hoover Institution, Archives Division Research Assistant to Bertram D. Wolfe, then editorial assistant to his widow, Ella G. Wolfe, 1977-1980
Stanford University Libraries, Government Documents Division Assistant to Foreign Documents Librarian, 1974-1977
Duke University Center for International Lecture and Translation Translator and Interpreter in Russian, German, French, 1973-74
Grants and Awards
Mary W. Klinger Book Award, The Society for Ethnobotany, 2023 (for The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food)
Longlist for the André Simon Award (UK), 2023 (for The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food)
Sakhe(l)ebi Prize for outstanding contribution to Georgian culinary culture, 2022
Shortlist for The Art of Eating Prize, 2021(for Beyond the North Wind: Russia in Recipes and Lore)
Finalist, IACP Award International and Culinary Travel categories, 2021 (for Beyond the North Wind: Russia in Recipes and Lore)
The Readable Feast Boston Book of the Year, 2021 (for Beyond the North Wind: Russia in Recipes and Lore)
Library Journal’s Best New Magazine Launches 2016, for CURED
Macgeorge Fellowship in Food Studies, University of Melbourne, November-December 2016
Finalist, IACP Award for Culinary Travel Writing, 2017 (for “An Island Apart” in Eating Well)
Finalist, James Beard award for best book, Reference category, 2016 (for The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets)
Honorable Mention, PROSE Awards, Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences category, 2016, hosted by the Association of American Publishers (for The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets).
Finalist, James Beard award for best cookbook, Photography category, 2016 (for Fire + Ice)
Finalist, IACP award for best cookbook, International category, 2016 (for Fire + Ice)
Longlist, The Art of Eating prize, 2016 (for Fire + Ice)
Distinguished Fellow in Food Studies, Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, 2012-2013.
Publication of the Year, James Beard Foundation, for Gastronomica, 2012.
Best Food Magazine in the World, Gourmet Voice World Cookbook Awards, Paris, for Gastronomica, 2011.
UTNE Independent Press Nomination for Social/Cultural Coverage, for Gastronomica, 2011.
Best Food Literature Book, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, for The Gastronomica Reader, 2010.
AAP/PSP PROSE award for Best Design in Print (Journals Category), The Professional and Scholarly Publishing (PSP) Division of the Association of American Publishers (AAP) announced the winners of the 2008 American Publishers Awards for Professional and Scholarly Excellence (The PROSE Awards), for Gastronomica, 2009.
UTNE Independent Press Nomination for Social/Cultural Coverage and for Best Writing, for Gastronomica, 2009.
Class of 1945 Faculty World Fellowship, Williams College, 2008.
Finalist, IACP award for best cookbook, compilations category, 2008 (for Baking Boot Camp)
Saveur 100, for Gastronomica, 2008.
UTNE Independent Press Award for Social/Cultural Coverage, for Gastronomica, 2007.
Honorable Mention for Outstanding Exhibition Catalogue of 2006 for Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005, American Association of Art Museum Curators, 2007.
Fellow, Faculty Center for Media Technologies, Williams College, 2007.
UTNE Independent Press Nomination for Social/Cultural Coverage, for Gastronomica, 2005.
Prix d’Argent for Culinary Cultures of Europe, Gourmet Voice World Food Media Festival, 2006.
Best Culinary History Book, Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, for Culinary Cultures of Europe, 2005.
Prix d’Or for Gastronomica, Gourmet Voice World Food Media Festival, 2004.
Herbert H. Lehman Fellow, Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Williams College, 2003-2004.
Finalist, M.F.K. Fisher Award, Les Dames d’Escoffier. 2002.
Jacob’s Creek World Food Media Awards. Bronze medal, “Best Food Magazine” (for Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture). 2001.
NEH (National Endowment for the Humanities) Fellowship for College Teachers. 1999.
Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences Fellowship, Williams College. 2007, 1998, 1993.
Sophie Coe Subsidiary Prize in Food History, the Oxford Symposium on Food History (for "Is Hay Only for Horses? Highlights of Russian Vegetarianism at the Turn of the Century"). 1997.
Mellon Foundation Research Grant (through Williams College Museum of Art, for work on Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age). 1997.
IACP Julia Child Award for Best Cookbook of the Year 1993 (for The Georgian Feast). Also awarded Best International Cookbook. 1994.
International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX) Short-Term Travel Grant to Russia. 1994.
IREX Collaborative Project Grant for the poet Viktor Sosnora's U.S. reading tour. 1987.
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Research Fellowship. 1987.
Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Research Fellowship. 1986.
Mellon Grant for Released Time from Teaching, Williams College. 1984.
Finalist, Tastemaker Award for Best International Cookbook (for A la Russe). 1983.
IREX Research Grant for the USSR. 1982-83.
Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Abroad Grant, Slavic Institute, Stockholm University. 1980-81.
IREX Research Grant for the USSR; transferred to Stockholm University upon refusal of visa by Soviet Ministry of Education. 1980-81.
National Defense Foreign Language Fellowship (NDFL). 1975-77.
Carl Smith Fellow, Stanford University. 1974-78.
Center for Research in International Studies Fellowship, Stanford University. Summer 1982.
Center for Research in Eastern European Studies, Stanford University. Summer 1982, 1978.
Books
Preserved: Condiments (with Cortney Burns and Richard Martin). San Francisco: Hardie Grant, 2023
Preserved: Fruit (with Cortney Burns and Richard Martin). San Francisco: Hardie Grant, 2023
The Kingdom of Rye: A Brief History of Russian Food. UC Press: Volume 77, California Studies in Food and Culture, 2022.
Beyond The North Wind. Ten Speed Press, 2020 (finalist for IACP award; longlisted for Art of Eating Prize; named one of the best cookbooks of the year by The Washington Post and Forbes)
Fire and Ice: Classic Nordic Cooking. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, 2015 (finalist for James Beard and IACP awards; long-listed for Art of Eating prize)
The Oxford Companion to Sugar and Sweets (editor-in-chief). New York: Oxford UP, 2015. (finalist for James Beard award)
High Society Dinners: Dining in Tsarist Russia by Yuri Lotman and Elena Pogosian. Translated by Marian Schwartz; edited and with an introduction by Darra Goldstein. Totnes, Devon: Prospect Books, 2014.
The Gastronomica Reader (editor). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010.
Baking Boot Camp: Five Days of Basic Training at The Culinary Institute of America (with The Culinary Institute of America). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table, 1500-2005 (with Sarah Coffin and Ellen Lupton). New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and Paris: Assouline, 2006.
Culinary Cultures of Europe: Identity, Diversity and Dialogue (Editor, with Kathrin Merkle). Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 2005.
The World Opened Wide: 20th-Century Russian Women Artists From the Collection of Thomas P. Whitney (editor, with Jill Meredith). Amherst, MA: Mead Art Museum, 2001.
Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age (with Deborah Rothschild and Ellen Lupton). New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.
The Vegetarian Hearth: Recipes and Reflections for the Cold Season. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Reissued as The Winter Vegetarian, New York: HarperCollins, 2000.
Nikolai Zabolotsky: Play for Mortal Stakes (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
The Georgian Feast: The Vibrant Culture and Savory Food of the Republic of Georgia. New York: HarperCollins, 1993. Reprinted by The University of California Press, 1999; updated 2013; revised and expanded 25th Anniversary edition, 2018.
Russian Houses (with Elizabeth Gaynor and Kari Haavisto). New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1991.
Art for the Masses. Williamstown: Williams College Museum of Art, 1985.
All About Love (a collection of thirty short stories translated from the Russian, Vse o liubvi by Teffi). Ann Arbor: Ardis Publishers, 1985.
A la Russe: A Cookbook of Russian Hospitality. New York: Random House, 1983; reissued as A Taste of Russia. London: Robert Hale Ltd., 1985, and New York: HarperCollins, 1991. 2nd, revised edition, Montpelier: RIS Publications, 1999; 30th Anniversary edition, Montpelier: Russian Life Books, 2012.
Scholarly Articles
Introduction, Columns by Nikolai Zabolotsky, trans. Dmitri Manin, Visible Poets series #47(London: Arc Publications, 2023)
“The Triumph of Nature,” in Nikolai Zabolotsky’s The Triumph of Agriculture (West Dorset, UK: Chasing Cow Productions, 2023)
Foreword, Seasoned Socialism: Gender and Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life, ed. Anastasia Lakhtikova, et. al. Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2019.
“The Past is Not Past” (with Dean Crawford) [on Malaga Island], Liminalities, vol. 15, no. 2 (2019).
Afterword, Food and Literature, ed. Gitanjali G. Shahani (Cambridge Critical Concepts). Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2018.
"Central Asian Cuisines," in Asian Cuisines: Food Culture from East Asia to Turkey and Afghanistan, ed. Karen Christensen. Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group, 2018.
“Under the Bed is a Dark, Cool Place” (with Christina Crawford), Shelf Life: Harvard Design Magazine, no. 43 (Fall/Winter 2016).
“What Lies Beyond,” Inside Outside Above Below (exhibition catalog for installation/performance by Aaron T. Stephan, Lauren Fensterstock, and Masa Miyake, Portland, Maine, September 2015).
Foreword, ‘Tickling the Palate’: Gastronomy in Irish Literature and Culture. Ed. Máirtin Mac Con Iomaire and Eamon Maher. Oxford: Peter Berg, 2014 (vol. 57 in the “Reimagining Ireland” series).
“Of Pineapples, Hazel Hens, and Church Unification,” New Studies in Modern Russian Literature and Culture: Essays in Honor of Stanley J. Rabinowitz, Part I (Stanford Slavic Studies vol. 45). Stanford, CA: Stanford University, 2014.
“A Medieval Russian Hangover Cure,” The Recipes Project: Food, Magic, Science and Medicine, at http://recipes.hypotheses.org/, July 2014.
“Precise Ambiguity,” catalog essay for Delightful, Delicious, Disgusting: Paintings by Mia Brownell, Cacciola Gallery, New York, January 2014.
“Jinyoung Yoon’s Microbial Magic,” in Jinyoung Yoon, The Remains (ex.cat.), Seoul: Iri Publishing, 2012.
“Hot Prospekts: Dining in the New Moscow,” in Celebrity and Glamour in Contemporary Russia: Shocking Chic, ed. Helena Goscilo and Vlad Strukov. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2011.
“Georgia,” in Food Cultures of the World Encyclopedia (Weston, CT: Greenwood, 2011).
“Food Scholarship and Food Writing,” Food, Culture & Society, Vol. 13, no. 3 (September 2010).
“The Wizard of 57th Street,” Southwest Review, vol. 95: 1-2 (special 95th anniversary double issue: “Style as Performance/Performance as Style”), April 2010.
“The Hunger Artist: Feasting and Fasting with Gogol,” Words Without Borders, June 2008, at http://www.wordswithoutborders.org/?lab=GoldsteinGogol.
“Chechen Food,” Prague Watchdog, April 2, 2008. Available online at http://www.watchdog.cz/?show=000000-000015-000006-000033&lang=1.
“Georgia: A Culinary Crossroads,” The Silk Road vol. 5, no. 1 (Summer 2007) Saratoga, CA: The Silkroad Foundation. Also available online at http://www.silkroadfoundation.org/newsletter/vol5num1/.
“Andy Warhol’s Wild Raspberries,” Encounter: Williams College Museum of Art. Edited by Vivian Patterson. Williamstown, MA; Williams College Museum of Art, 2006.
“Cooking up Community with the Jews of Turkmenistan,” Zeek: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture, Fall/Winter 2006.
“Elena Molokhovets,” “Gogol,” Culinary Biographies. Edited by Alice Arndt. Houston: Yes Press, Inc., 2006.
“Will Matzoh Go Mainstream: Jewish Food in America,” in The Jewish Role in American Life: An Annual Review, vol. 4. Los Angeles: USC Casden Center for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, 2005.
“The Play’s The Thing: Dining in the New Russia,” in The Taste Culture Reader: Experiencing Food and Drink. ed. Carolyn Korsmeyer. Oxford: Berg, 2005.
“Women under Siege: Leningrad 1941-1942,” in From Betty Crocker to Feminist Food Studies: Critical Perspectives on Women and Food, ed. Barbara Haber and Arlene Avakian, Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 2005.
“Nikolaj Zabolockij” in Strannaja' poezija i 'strannaja' proza: Nonsens, Absurd i Grotesk v russkoj literature XX veka. Vyp. II filologicheskogo al'manakha Alfavit. Ed. Natal'ja Kuzina and Igor’ Loshchilov. Smolensk, 2003.
“Russia,” in The Encyclopedia of Food. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002.
“Russian Cuisine,” in Encyclopedia of Russian History. New York: Macmillan, 2003.
“Russian-American Food” in The Encyclopedia of American Food and Drink. New York: Oxford UP, 2004.
“Caviar,” in Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian, Soviet, and Eurasian History. Ed. Bruce F. Adams. Gulf Breeze, FL: Academic International Press, 2004.
“Central Asian Food,” in The Encyclopedia of Modern Asia. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2002.
“Gastronomic Reforms under Peter the Great,” Jahrbücher für Geschichte Osteuropas, 4/2000.
“Teaching the Wooden Spoon, Not the Scepter,” Food Forum Quarterly, 4/2000.
"Russian Dining: Theatre of the Gastronomic Absurd," Performance Research 4, no. 1 (Spring 1999).
"Is Hay Only For Horses? Highlights of Russian Vegetarianism at the Turn of the Century," in Food in Russian History and Culture, ed. Musya Glantz and Joyce Toomre, Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press, 1997.
"Domestic Porkbarreling in Nineteenth-Century Russia, or Who Holds the Keys to the Larder," in Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren, eds.,Russia, Women, Culture, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
"Russia, Carême, and the Culinary Arts," The Slavonic and East European Review, October 1995.
"Juan Romero's 'Still Life with Carnations'," Labeltalk, Williams College Museum of Art, ex. cat., 1995.
"Elena Shvarts," in Marina Ledkovsky, Charlotte Rosenthal, and Mary Zirin, eds., Dictionary of Russian Women Writers, Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994.
"The Heartfelt Poetry of Elena Shvarts," in Helena Goscilo, ed. Fruits of Her Plume: Essays on Contemporary Russian Women's Culture. Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1993.
"'Moscow in Fences': Viktor Sosnora at the Gate," Russian Review, April 1992.
"Four Walls: An Interview with Viktor Sosnora, December 1989," Nimrod, vol. 33, no. 2, Spring/Summer 1990.
"Zabolotskii and Filonov: The Science of Composition," Slavic Review, vol. 48, no. 4, Winter 1989.
"Notes on the Istanbul Food Conference," The Journal of Gastronomy, vol. 4, no. 4, Winter 1988/1989.
"An Interview with Viktor Sosnora," The New York Review of Books, October 13, 1988.
"The Utopian Vision of Nikolai Zabolotsky," Kennan Institute Occasional Paper #222, October 1987.
"Moscow's Culinary Museum," The Journal of Gastronomy, vol. 3, no. 3, Autumn 1987.
"The Eastern Influence on Russian Cuisine," Proceedings of a conference on "Current Research in Culinary History: Sources, Topics, and Methods," Boston: Schlesinger Library and Culinary Historians of Boston, 1986.
"Russian Writers in Georgia: A Southern Exposure," Nimrod, vol. 28, no. 2, 1985.
"The Culinary Art of Georgia," Nimrod, vol. 28, no. 2, 1985.
"Zabolockij and Ciolkovskij: Visions of a Brave New World," Russian Literature (Amsterdam), December 1983.
Popular Articles
“The Cancellation of Russia,” Brooklyn Rail, June 2022
“Från isterkeks till meloner” [“From Easter Cake to Melons”], Gastronaut magazine, #2 (2022)
"Nalivka," in The Oxford Companion to Spirits & Cocktails, ed. Dave Wondrich. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021
"Nypressad äpplemust” [The Aroma of Apples"], Gastronaut (Sweden), 1:1 (2021)
"Gastronomic History," Guinness World Records 2022. London: Guinness World Records Limited, 2021
“A Re-conceived Restaurant,” in Re-Seed. Online at www.appraisalatpresent.com
“Salt of the White Sea,“ EATEN magazine, October 2020
“Labda,” in Alana Newhouse, The 100 Most Jewish Foods: With 60 Recipes for Everything from Kugel to Kubbeh. New York: Artisan, 2019
“The poetic potato: How to celebrate a poet in Russia,” TLS (Times Literary Supplement, London), March 22, 2019.
"White nights and northern lights in Russia,” The Boston Globe, January 26, 2018.
“An Island Apart,” Eating Well, March/April 2016 [on Cuban food and agriculture]
“Can Gluttony be a virtue?” Zócalo Public Square, November 10, 2015, at www.zocalopublicsquare.org/2015/11/10/can-gluttony-set-you-free/ideas/up- for- discussion/
“Save the Cod! Barents Sea Habitat Threatened,” Zester Daily, October 14, 2015, at zesterdaily.com/opinion/save-cod-barents-sea-habitat-threatened/
“The Art of Sculpting with Sugar,” The Getty Iris, September 22, 2015, at blogs.getty.edu/iris/the-art-of-sculpting-with-sugar/
“Down the doughnut hole: fried dough in art,” OUP blog, July 23, 2015, at blog.oup.com/2015/07/doughnut-hole-fried-dough-art/
“ZaSu Pitts: the little-known confectioner, OUP blog, June 4, 2015, at blog.oup.com/2015/06/zasu-pitts-little-known-confectioner/
Foreword, To Eat with Grace (collected essays from Orion magazine), Orion Publishing, 2014.
“The Land of Sun and Berries,” Eating Well, July/August 2014.
“Nordic by Nature, Food Arts, May 2014.
“Sochi: An Olympic Flavor Medley,” Eating Well, January/February 2014.
“Small Worlds After All,” Wall Street Journal, November 9-10, 2013.
The Vassar Quarterly (guest editor of special food issue), Summer 2013.
“Irish Blaas Bridge Old Traditions, New Cuisine,” Zester Daily, March 12, 2013.
“The New Green Cuisine” [on Irish food], The Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2013.
“A Bribe-Worthy Chicken Dish,” The Wall Street Journal, March 9, 2012.
“Pick a Pepper,” Real Food, Spring 2012.
“Maaltijd Uit Het Hart” (“Food From the Heart”), Sabor (Netherlands), Summer/Fall 2011.
“Baby Carrots,” for Food and the Media project, in media res, February 28, 2011. At http://mediacommons.futureofthebook.org/imr/2011/02/28/baby-carrots.
“Wild About Walnuts,” Real Food, Winter 2010.
“Belt of Borscht,” Food Arts, October 2010.
“Radical Tastes”, Zester Daily, July 28, 2010, at http://www.zesterdaily.com/zester-soapbox- articles/598-youth-food-movement
“Reach for the Tsars,” Food Arts, October 2009.
“A Holiday Russian Feast,” Real Food, Winter 2009.
“Café Culture,” RA: The Royal Academy of Arts Magazine, no. 100, Autumn 2008.
“A Taste of Mother Russia” [Vologda butter], Saveur, March 2008.
“The Carver’s Art,” Saveur, December 2007.
“Sweet Life,” Saveur, March 2007.
“Artful Dining,” The Daily Gullet, on EGullet, posted May 26, 2006.
“Turkmen Food,” Aramco World, February 2006.
“To Russia with Love,” Gourmet, December 2005.
“Coulibiac,” Saveur, December 2003.
“Iceland Cometh” [Sustainable Agriculture in Iceland], Gourmet, April 2004.
“Winter Roots,” Vegetarian Times, January 2003.
“Chicken Kiev,” Saveur, January/February 2002.
“Dill,” Bon Appétit, April 2001.
“The Cheese and the Sorceress,” Gourmet, September 2000.
“Beef Stroganoff,” Saveur, September/October 2000.
“Cumin,” Bon Appétit, July 2000.
"Blood Oranges," Bon Appétit, April 1999.
"Vegetables We Love To Hate," Santé, March 1998.
"Great New England Cooking: Getting Back to Our Roots," Yankee Magazine, January 1998.
"Caviar Dreams" (cover story), Saveur, January/February 1998.
"Home is Where the Hearth Is," Food and Wine, November 1997.
"Zakuski," in The Joy of Cooking, revised edition, New York: Scribner's, 1997.
"A Brief History of Vegetarianism," IACP Food Forum, Summer 1997.
"Russian Dining in America," Russian Life, December 1996.
"Take a Walk on the Wild Side" [game cookery], Santé, October 1996.
"Cooking with Walnuts," Cook's Illustrated, February 1996.
"Vodka," Saveur, March/April 1996.
"Baking with a Wood-Fired Brick Oven," The Radcliffe Culinary Times, vol. 2, no. 1, Spring 1992.
"Culinary Adventures in Soviet Georgia," Eating Well, Charter Issue, September/October 1990.
"Vodka: A Distillation," American Wine and Food, July 1987.
"A Taste of the Crimea" (translation of a short story by Andrei Sedych), Cuisine, November 1984.
"Spicy, Robust Fare of Soviet Georgia," New York Times, November 30, 1983.
Book Reviews
Ingredients of Change: The History and Culture of Food in Modern Bulgaria by Mary C. Neuberger, Slavonic and East European Review, volume 101, no. 1, January 2023
Mixing Medicines: The Global Drug Trade and Early Modern Russia by Clare Griffin, TLS, November 18, 2022
Whites & Reds by Stephen V. Bittner, TLS (London), August 20/27, 2021
Red Sands by Caroline Eden, TLS (London), February 18, 2021
Rebellious Cooks and Recipe Writing in Communist Bulgaria by Albena Shkodrova. Slavonic & East European Review, vol. 99, no. 4 (October 2021)
Without the Banya We Would Perish: A History of the Russian Bathhouse, by Ethan Pollock. TLS (London), December 20/27, 2019.
Black Sea: Dispatches and Recipes from Darkness through Light, by Caroline Eden. TLS (London), January 25, 2019.
Forage, Harvest, Feast: A Wild-Inspired Cuisine, by Marie Viljoen, TLS, London), September 21, 2018.
The Missing Ingredient, by Jenny Linford, TLS (London), June 12, 2018.
Kosher USA, by Roger Horowitz. TLS (London), September 23, 2016.
Jewish Soul Food: From Minsk to Marrakesh, by Janna Gur, TLS, December 17, 2014.
From the Jewish Heartland: Two Centuries of Midwest Foodways, by Ellen F. Steinberg and Jack H. Prost, Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies, vol. 31, no. 4 (Summer 2013).
Desert Terroir, by Gary Paul Nabhan, TLS (Times Literary Review, London), November 2, 2012.
Extra Virginity: The Sublime and Scandalous World of Olive Oil, by Tom Mueller, TLS (Times Literary Review, London), March 16, 2012.
CuiZine: The Journal of Canadian Food Cultures | Revue des cultures culinaires au Canada, TLS (Times Literary Review, London), November 4, 2011.
Alison Smith, Recipes for Russia: Food and Nationhood under the Tsars, published in Journal of World History, December 2010.
John Randolph, The House in the Garden: The Bakunin Family and the Romance of Russian Idealism, published in Canadian Slavonic Papers/Revue Candaienne des Slavistes, vol.51.1 (March 2009).
“Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love,” Gastrononomica 9:1 (February 2009).
“Caviar: The Strange History and Uncertain Future of the World’s Most Coveted Delicacy,” Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture 3:4 (November 2003).
"Between Heaven and Hell: The Story of A Thousand Years of Artistic Life in Russia", The Boston Globe Book Review, April 12, 1998.
"The Life of Zabolotsky", Russian Review, October 1995.
"Christianity and the Eastern Slavs. Volume II: Russian Culture in ModernTimes", Slavic Review, Winter 1995.
"Modernists, Marxists and the Nation. The Ukrainian Literary Discussion of the 1920s", The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms, vol. 1:5, 1996.
"The Total Art of Stalinism", Russian History/Histoire Russe, Spring 1993.
"Kazimir Malevich", Slavic Review, Winter 1992.
"Boris Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago", Slavic Review, Spring 1991.
"Pavel Filonov: A Hero and His Fate", Russian Review, September 1985.
Other
Bibliography. In Maguellone Toussaint-Samat, History of Food, 2 nd ed. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2008.
Exhibitions
“Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools of the Table,” with Ellen Lupton and Sarah Coffin. The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 5 May – 29 October 2006; Winterthur Museum and Estate, November 2008-February 2009
“The World Opened Wide: 20 th -Century Russian Women Artists. Selections from the Thomas P. Whitney Collection,” with Jill Meredith, Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, March 2001.
"Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age," with Deborah Rothschild (Williams College Museum of Art) and Ellen Lupton (Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum). Williams College Museum of Art, 25 April - 1 November 1998. Venues at The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, New York; IVAM, Centro Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain; Suntory Museum, Tokyo; Kawasaki Museum; Obihiro Museum; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle.
"Art for the Masses: Russian Revolutionary Art from the Merrill C. Berman Collection." Williams College Museum of Art, 27 January - 12 May 1985. Venues at Davison Art Center, Wesleyan University; Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College; Addison Gallery of American Art.
Selected Lectures and Panels
“The Art of Culinary Diplomacy and Eurasian Fermentation Traditions,” The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, October 2023
“Food and the Making of Russian National Identity,” Carleton College, February 2023; Smith College, October 2023
“Food Traditions of the North,” The Museum of Russian Art, February 2023
Keynote lecture, “Kharcho and Khachapuri: The Georgian Feast and its Meanings,” Davis Center, Harvard University, September 2022
“Rye: Cultural History and Embodied Practice,” Yale University, July 2022
“Researching Russian Food,” Swarthmore College, September 2022
"The Kingdom of Rye: Russian Food and National Identity," MIT, March 2022
"Norwegian Culinary Traditions" (in conjunction with the exhibition Nikolai Astrup: Visions of Norway, Clark Art Institute, August 2021
“Beyond the North Wind: Exploring Russia through Food.” Zoom presentation for the Williams and Princeton Clubs of New York, May 2020
“A Russian Dacha Picnic,” Zoom presentation for Jewish Food Society, July 2020
“Russian fermentation,” Zoom lecture for “Cultured and Cured” initiative, May 2020
“The Art of Corn,” Topic48 Corn Symposium, The New School, New York, September 2019.
“Exploring Preservation Traditions in Russia and Central Europe,” Boston Fermentation Festival, August 2019 (with Cortney Burns).
M.C., “Cultural Collaboration: Soviet Roots Passover Seder,” James Beard Foundation, April 2019
“P’tcha,” for The Jewish Food Society’s Benefit “Schmaltzy,” New York, October 2018.
“Food, Art, and Reconciliation,” Limud Helsinki, February 2018.
Keynote speaker, “Picturing Displacement,” International workshop on “Food, Childhood, and Migration,” University of Helsinki, Collegium for Advanced Studies, September 2017.
“Dining in the Gilded Age,” Clark Art Institute, in conjunction with the exhibition Orchestrating Elegance: Alma-Tadema and Design, July 2017.
Keynote speaker, “Cuisine and the Construction of Russian National Identity,” symposium on “The Invention of Food,” Institute for Historical Studies, University of Texas at Austin, April 2017.
“Cuisine and the Construction of Russian National Identity,” Yale University, April 2017.
“Cookbooks and Art,” Oklahoma Center for the Humanities, Tulsa, February 2017.
"Food for Thought: Scholarship and the New Nordic Cuisine,” Carleton College, January 2017.
“Russia, the Land, and Its Food,” Vermont Humanities Council First Wednesdays series,
Montpelier, VT, December 2015.
“Fire and Ice,” Talks@Google, Sunnyvale, CA, October 2015.
“David Shterenberg’s Laden Tables,” Symposium on Charismatic Modernism, Stanford University, October 2015.
Conversation with Marcia Reed, curator of The Edible Monument: The Art of Food for
Festivals, Getty Research Institute, October 2015
Chair, panel on Food and Communication, Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery, July 2015
Keynote speaker, “Seeing Through Food: Cuisine, Culture and the Visual Arts,” Food in Society and Culture – Research across the Social Sciences and the Humanities, University of Helsinki, May 2015.
Moderator, “Sugar and Sweets,” Food Book Fair, Brooklyn, April 2015.
Moderator, “Culinary Diplomacy,” IACP Annual Conference, Washington, DC, March 2015.
“Looking at Cookbooks: Seven Centuries of Visual Feasts,” Masters Series,
Toledo Museum of Art, February 2015.
Panelist, “Sugar,” Five Boroughs Food Talk, Symphony Space, New York, February 2015.
“Yuri Lotman Does High Society,” New York University, Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, November 2014.
“Feast and Famine: One Thousand Years of Russian Food,” Chico State University Humanities Center, October 2014.
“The Epicure in Imperial Russia,” A Feast for the Eyes Symposium, The California Book Club October 2014.
“The World on a Plate,” Vermont Humanities Council, October 2013.
“Russia, the Land and its Food,” Museum of Russian Icons, September 2013.
Keynote speaker, “Bread Culture,” Kneading Conference West, Northwestern Washington
Research and Extension Center, Mount Vernon, Washington, September 2013.
Keynote speaker, “Tools of the Trade: Experiential Studies for the Food Industry” symposium, Boston University, September 2013.
Plenary speaker, “Food and Material Culture,” Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery,
July 2013.
Panelist, “F.O.O.D.: Food, Objects, Objectives, Design,” Mint Museum Symposium, April 2013.
Moderator, “The California Food Revolution,” IACP annual conference, April 2013.
“Artful Dining,” Clark Art Institute, January 2013.
“Dining with the Tsars,” Detroit Institute of Arts, December 2012.
Panelist, “What’s Cooking? Food Studies in the Humanities: The State of the Field,” Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto, November 2012.
Keynote address, Dublin Gastronomy Symposium, Dublin, June 2012.
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Food,” Boston University, April 2012.
“The Orchestration of the Meal,” Pépin Lecture Series, Boston University, January 2012.
“The Progression of the Fork: From Diabolical to Divine,” Bates College, September 2011;
Boston University, November 2012; Occidental College, April 2013.
Keynote speaker, “Feed Your Head: Food as Material and Metaphor,” The Eighth Biennial
Graduate Group Symposium, Bryn Mawr College, November 2011.
Keynote speaker (The Dooley Lecture), “Beyond the Local,” Culinary Institute of America Sustainability Conference, September 2011.
Keynote presenter, Food Justice conference, Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics,
University of Oregon, February 2011.
Panelist, “The Hungry Muse,” Key West Literary Seminars, January 2011.
Panelist, “Exhibiting Food,” Menus and the Media, NYU, December 2010.
Panelist, “The French Connection: Cooking with Julia Child and Charlotte Turgeon,”
Northampton, MA, November 2010.
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Food,” University of Michigan School of Public Health, October 2010.
“The Visual Culture of Food,” Hermanns Lecture Series on Food, Literature and Culture, University of Texas, Arlington, October 2010.
“Reading Between the Lines,” Peabody Essex Museum, May 2010.
“Veuve Clicquot and Russia,” Nantucket Wine Festival, May 2010.
“Food, Culture and Identity in a Global Society,” with Barry Glassner, EU Center of Excellence, University of California, Berkeley, April 2010.
Panelist, “Tasteful Pictures” (Zócalo Public Square panel at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, April 2010.
Chair, “Surface or Substance: Food Writing in Magazines,” Roger Smith Food Writers’
Conference, New York City, February 2010.
"Nurturing the Nation: Eating Out in the New Russia," MLA annual convention,
Philadelphia, December 2009.
Respondent, “Defining Foods, Defining Citizens: The Political Complicities of Culinary
Discourse,” MLA annual convention, Philadelphia, December 2009.
Keynote speaker, “Food for Thought,” Vermont Humanities Council annual conference November 2009.
Plenary panelist, “The Visual Language of Food,” Oxford Symposium on Food & Cookery September 2009.
“The Orchestration of the Meal,” Colonial Dames Annual Lecture, Cincinnati Museum of
Art, Cincinnati, May 2009.
“Russian California,” IACP Food History Symposium, Lodi, CA, October 2009.
“The Theory and Practice of Literary Editing,” Boston University Editorial Institute,
October 2009.
Keynote Speaker: "Thinking About Food in a Globalized Century," at Eating Chinese:
Comestibles, Cuisine, Commerce and Culture, sponsored by the Brown University Center for Race and Ethnicity and The Culinary Arts Museum at Johnson & Wales University, April 2009.
Keynote speaker, “Can Food Be a Force for Social Change?” conference on Food Sustainability
+ Food Security, University of California, Santa Barbara, February 2009.
Tasting Histories, World History through Food: Globalized Food Narratives, UC Davis, February 2009.
Chair, “Cultures of Food History: Food Historiography from Early Modern Europe to
Contemporary Japan,” American Historical Association annual conference, January
2009.
“Dining in the New Moscow,” Symposium on Feeding Frenzy: Food and Performance, New
York University, September 2008.
“Promoting Peace in Israel and Palestine,” Taste3 Conference, Napa, July 2008.
Chair, “Gastronomie et désir,” Congrès Cultures et Saveurs d’Europe, Strasbourg, July 2008.
Commencement speaker, 2008 Commencement, St. Andrew’s School, Middletown, Delaware.
Talkback at performance of On Naked Soil: Imagining Anna Akhmatova, Theater for the New City, New York, April 2008.
"Subversive Food," Shasha Seminar for Human Concerns (Food: Power and Identity), Wesleyan University, April 2008.
“The Social Significance of Food Writing Through the Ages: The Case of Elena Molokhovets,” IACP Annual Conference, April 2008.
“Cultures culinaires en Europe: tables rondes autour de la cuisine européenne,” Europalia.europa festival, Brussels, November 2007.
“The Georgian Supra,” Fannie and Alan Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College; Oberlin College, October 2007.
"The Progress of the Fork, from Diabolical to Divine," Symposium on Innovation at the Table, Center for the History of Business, Technology, and Society, Hagley Museum and Library, September 2007.
Keynote speech, “Reading the Imagery of Food,” International Conference on Food Styling and Photography, Boston University, June 2007.
“The Orchestration of the Meal,” Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, October 2006.
“From Entremets to Sotelties: The Orchestration of the Meal,” Symposium on Feeding Desire: Dining as Spectacle, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, May 2006.
Keynote speech, “Passing Fancies: Fixing the Unfixed,” fifth annual symposium of the Bard
Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture, April 2006.
Chair, “Food Trends as a Marker of National Identity in Post-Soviet Europe,” ICCEES
(International Council for Central and East European Studies), Berlin, July 2005.
“How to Set a Table in the Gilded Age,” American Culinary History Symposium,
The Longone Center for American Culinary Research, William L. Clements Library,
University of Michigan, May 2005.
“Matzo Goes Mainstream: Jewish Food in America,” The Dr. Harold I. Lee Annual Lecture, Casden Institute for the Study of the Jewish Role in American Life, University of Southern California, February 2004.
“Courtly Cuisine: Gastronomic Reforms under Peter the Great,” symposium on “St. Petersburg 300 th Anniversary: The city as a Cradle of Modern Russia,” Hofstra University, November 2003.
“A Great Leap Backwards?” Symposium on Russia 10 years After the Fall, Oakley Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Williams College, October 2003.
“Carême and the Culinary Arts,” conference on “Brillat-Savarin Revisited,” Boston University, May 2003.
“The Hunger Artist: Feasting and Fasting with Gogol,” Gogol symposium, Vassar College, May 2002.
Keynote speaker, Conference on “Representations of Food in Literature and the Arts,” University
of Texas, San Antonio, February 2002.
Lidiya Ginzburg’s Blockade Diary, Davies Forum on “Our Food, Our Society: An
Exploration of American Values,” University of San Francisco, November 2001.
Discussant, “Consuming Post-Soviet Identities: Ethnographic Perspectives on
Food, Practice, and Discourse,” AAASS National Convention, November 2001.
“Tolstoy’s Table: Feasting and Fasting in Russian Culture,” Miami University, March 2001.
“The Eastern Influence on Russian Cuisine,” Colgate University, October 2000.
“The Future of Food Studies,” Faculty Humanities Seminar, Brandeis University, September 2000.
Chair, “Nikolai Zabolotskii,” VI International Council for Central and East European Studies World Congress, Tampere Finland, August 2000.
“Food in the Nineteenth-century Russian Novel,” The Mercantile Library, New York, April 2000.
"Gogol 'Old-World Landowners' or The Lost Art of Eating Well," Dartmouth College, April 1998; Middlebury College, March 1999.
Chair, "Fifty Years of Ambivalence: Zabolotsky Studies Finally Come of Age," AAASS National Convention, September 1998.
Food in Russian Futurism," Oxford Symposium in Food History, Oxford, September 1998.
"Coffee and keks: Gastronomic Reforms under Peter the Great," Northeast Association for Eighteenth-Century Studies Annual Conference, September 1998; Columbia Slavic Seminars, New York, October 1998; New York University Humanities Council
Colloquium, March 1999; Davis Russian Research Center, Harvard University, April
1999.
"Russian Dietary Practices," The Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, March 1998.
"A Brief History of Vegetarianism," IACP Annual Meeting, April 1997.
Chair, "Freud and Russian Literary Modernism," Symposium on Russian Modernism and Freudian Thought, Amherst College, September 1996.
"The Thomas P. Whitney Collection of Russian Art," Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, December, 1994.
"Is Hay Only for Horses? Highlights of Russian Vegetarianism at the Turn of the Century," AAASS National Convention, November, 1994.
"American Flapjacks: A Culinary Odyssey," Fifth International Food Congress, Istanbul,
September 1994; The Second Annual Interdisciplinary Conference on Food and Culture, Boston University, May 1995.
"Domestic Porkbarreling in Nineteenth-Century Russia," Interdisciplinary Conference on Food and Culture, University of New Hampshire, March, 1994.
"Antonin Carême's Architectural Designs for Saint Petersburg," Conference on "Food in Russian History and Culture," Russian Research Center, Harvard University, October 1993; Culinary Historians of Boston, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, September 1993; The University of Texas at Austin, April 1995.
"The Industry of Art," Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, October 1991.
"The Russian Avant-Garde in Georgia," Emory University, April 1990; Wellesley College, March 2001.
"The Myth of Nourishment in Saltykov-Shchedrin's The Golovlevs, AAASS National Convention, November 1989.
"Pirosmani and Georgian Food," Culinary Historians of Boston, Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College, January 1989.
"'Moscow in Fences';: Sosnora and Zabolotsky at the Gate," AAASS National Convention, November 1988.
"The Cuisine of Soviet Georgia," Second International Food Congress, Istanbul, September 1988.
"The Politics of Translation," Williams College Symposium on Translation, October 1987.
"The Utopian Vision of Nikolai Zabolotsky," Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies Colloquium, December 1986; University of Texas at Austin, January 1987.
"Art for a New Age," Davison Art Gallery, Wesleyan University, October 1985; Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, December 1985.
"Fin-de-siècle Moscow," Symposium on "Vienna 1900: Paradox, Politics, and Patronage," Francine and Sterling Clark Art Institute, October 1985.
"The Eastern Influence on Russian Cuisine," Schlesinger Library/Culinary Historians of Boston Conference, Radcliffe College, June 1985.
"Zabolotskii and Filonov: The Science of Composition," AATSEEL Annual Meeting, December 1984.
"Zabolotskii and Tsiolkovskii," Fourth California Slavic Colloquium, UCLA, April 1982.
"Nikolai Zabolotskii's 'Lodeinikov'," Foreign Language Association of Northern California
Annual Convention, March 1980.
"Bella Akhmadulina's 'Chills'," Stanford Conference on Women Poets in Translation, November 1979.
Selected Professional Service
Judge, The Waxman Prize from Kitchen Arts & Letters, 2024
Judge, National Jewish Book Awards (food writing category), 2019-2023
National Museum of American History Advisory Board (“Kitchen Cabinet”), 2018-present
Julia Child Foundation for Gastronomy and the Culinary Arts Advisory Board, 2018-present
Judge, Good Food Awards, 2019
Juror, The Julia Child Award, 2015-2018
Regional judge, James Beard Foundation Restaurant Awards, 2001-2021
Consultant and Juror, The Vilcek Foundation Awards, New York City, 2009-2010
Honorary member, Advisory Board, Israeli Culinary Museum
Board of Directors, IACP (International Association of Culinary Professionals), 2006-2008
Advisory Board, Berkshire Living magazine, 2005-2009
Honorary Committee, Longone Center for American Culinary Research, Clements Library, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Advisory Board, Copia: The American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, 2001-2005
Editorial Advisory Board, Russian Life magazine, 2002-present
AAASS National Committee on the Student Prize, 1996-2000
Special Category Judge, IACP Cookbook Awards, 2002, 2005, 2006, 2011
Executive Committee Judge, IACP Julia Child Cookbook Awards, 1999-2003
Judge, American Association of Food Journalists Annual Prize, 2000
American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) National Fellowship Review Committee, 1998, 1999, 2000
Judge, IACP Bert Greene Awards for Food Journalism, 1998, 2003
Advisory Group on Admissions and Financial Aid, Williams College, 1996-8; 2004-2006; 2010-2012
IREX (International Research and Exchanges Board) National Fellowship Review Committees, 1995
Consultant, Swarthmore-Haverford-Bryn Mawr Russian Studies Program Development Project, 1995
Visiting Review Committee for Russian Department, Bowdoin College, 1997; Vassar College, 1991, 2011
Chair, Williams College Library Committee, 2001-2003; 2005-2006
Chair, Department of German and Russian, Williams College, 1995-1998
Williams College-MassMOCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) Liaison
Committee, 1992-1994
Faculty Interview Panel of the Committee on Appointments and Promotions, Williams College, 1993
Williams College Center for the Humanities and Social Sciences Policy and Review Committee, 1988-1993
Chair, Williams College Lecture Committee, 1991-1992
Williams College Faculty Steering Committee, 1985-86; 1988-89
Founder and Organizer, Williams College-Tbilisi State University Exchange Program
Referee, Russian Review, Slavic Review, Gender and Society, and others, as well as for
university presses including Princeton University Press, University of California Press, Oxford University Press, and Yale University Press
Mini-Courses
“Real Russian Food,” online course for New York City 92nd St Y, May 2020
“Love and Knishes: The History of Ashkenazi Food,” Bard-YIVO Winter Program on Ashkenazic Civilization, January 2019
Miscellaneous
Curator, opening banquet for “The Russian Connection, The Barents Spektakel (Kirkenes, Norway), February 2020
Honorary Committee, Santa Barbara Culinary Experience, 2019-2020
Restaurant Consultant, Russian Tea Room, New York City, 1999-2000; Firebird, New York City, 1996
Participant, Food History and Culture Study Action Group: Building a Better Berkshire Food System National Demonstration Project, 1996
Master Classes and lectures in Georgian and Russian cuisines at cooking schools nationwide
Frequent media appearances on national television and radio, including TVFN, Lifetime TV, National Public Radio
Spokesperson for Stolichnaya Vodka, 1984-1985
Languages
Russian (near-native fluency)
German, French, Swedish (reading fluency, basic speaking proficiency)