Leo Tolstoy's family recipe book info
“Cookery Book, second edition, revised and corrected in 1874. Imprimatur. Publisher Stepan Andreevich Bers dedicates this book to his sister, countess Sophia Andreevna Tolstaya”- these words on the first page preface the Tolstoys’ cookery book that serves as the foundation of this work. Initially meant to be a joky gift of a loving brother to the great writer’s spouse, Sophia, this collection of recipes helps us get a glimpse of the family life of the author of Anna Karenina, War and Peace and other masterpieces. This is not a critical essay, not another biography. This book is an invitation to the writer’s home, where hospitality was a staple law, no matter where the family lived: the huge Yasnaya Polyana mansion or the write
