The Belarusian Cookbook
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The Belarusian Cookbook by Aliaksandr Biely is a culinary history told in over 200 recipes and 50 photographs. This volume is a cultural and historical journey through the kitchens of Belarus, a land shaped by shifting borders, layered identities, and centuries
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The Belarusian Cookbook is a culinary history and cultural document in equal measure. Biely draws on oral tradition, archival sources, and rare historical cookbooks — including the remarkable 19th-century Kucharka Litewska — to reconstruct the full range of Belarusian cuisine across centuries and social classes.
Simple peasant meals sit alongside the refined dishes of the nobility. Jewish, Tatar, Lithuanian, Polish, and Russian influences run through the pages, woven into a cuisine that is distinctly Belarusian: local, resilient, and quietly inventive. Many of these recipes appear in English for the first time.
This is a book for cooks who want to understand what they are cooking, and for readers who want to know a country through its food. Every recipe comes with context — historical, cultural, seasonal — that makes this as much a work of cultural history as a kitchen reference.
This book offers a way to explore Belarus through its food — one recipe, one story, one meal at a time.
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| Weight | 1.3 kg |
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| Dimensions | 20 × 20 × 3 cm |
| Title | The Belarusian Cookbook |
| Author | Aliaksandr Biely |
| Translator | Aliaksandr Biely |
| Format | Hardcover |
| Pages | 408 |
