Rory wrote:
>
> I want to purchase a book in English on Russian cuisine, and am
> wondering whether anyone has experience with one or more of the
> following books:
>
> Molokhovets: A Gift to Young Housewives
> Bremzen: Please to the Table
> Volokh: The Art of Russian Cuisine
>
> I've seen suggestions that Molokhovets is sometimes imprecise and
> calls for ingredients that are not readily available in North America,
> but I'm neither surprised nor concerned about that, and the historical
> perspective interests me. However, if one of the other books is just
> plain better, I'd like to know it.
>
> Grateful on any observations on the foregoing titles.

I've used the latter two books. They are fine for me. However be warned
that I mentally fill in the blanks in any cookbook. If there are
egregious errors in either of them I can't recall offhand.

Haven't see the first one, but it does sound interesting.