Books
- 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.
- Celebrating Europe at the Table: Food, Culture and Diversity (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. Reprinted 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 (awarded the IACP Julia Child Award for Best Cookbook of the Year 1993, and also Best International Cookbook). Reprinted by The University of California Press, 1999.
- 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 (nominated for the Tastemaker Award, 1983); reissued as A Taste of Russia. London: Robert Hale Ltd., 1985, and New York: HarperCollins, 1991. 2nd, revised edition, Montpelier: RIS Publications, 1999.
Articles: Scholarly Publications
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“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, forthcoming.
- “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, 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. Awarded the Sophie Coe Subsidiary Prize in Food History, Oxford Symposium on Food History. 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.
Articles: Trade Publications
- “Vologda Butter,” Saveur, forthcoming March 2008.
- “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.
Reviews
- “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.