AElitaPress.org, an Ossining publisher, is happy to announce that the author of its most recently published book The World of Russian Borsch, Nikolai Burlakoff, is available to give talks about the first ever historical study of this dish to community groups.
Suggested topics include:
1. “What’s The Difference Between “Borscht” and “Borsch”?”
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2. “From Hogweed Soup to Outer Space, The Story of Borsch—The World’s Best Known Soup”
3. “Twenty Years to Write a Book About Soup? “: The Story of Writing The World of Russian Borsch”
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4. “Readings from Chapter 1—‘How This Story Began’”
5. “Readings from Chapter 12—‘Cooking With Matza’”
6. “ ‘Memorial Borsch’ readings from Chapter 11—‘Borsch in the Age of Internet’ ”
7. “Borsch: An Example of Organic ‘Glocalization’ in a Globalized World”
8. “Let Me Tell You My Borsch Story … !” Examples of Stories Told on Hearing the Book’s Title”
(Audience story sharing and discussion encouraged.)
9. “The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food aka The Book as the Soviet Union’s Most Significant Cookbook and Best Example of Socialist Realism”
10. “Religion and Borsch: The Close Connection of Borsch to Religious Expression”
11. “Borsch and Community Cookbooks in America, and Internationally.”
The World of Russian Borsch is Mr. Burlakoff’s latest book published by AElitaPress.org. In 2012 he released A Kalmyk Sampler: Mongol Poetry and Mythic Tale, with illustrations by Eduardo Barrios, and Erol Beet and the Borsch Angel—How the Borsch Angel Got Her Name, a children’s book, illustrated by Roland Hale.
Previously he has contributed to the grassroots cookbook Indy Cooks International, created by the Nationalities Council of Indiana, and Foods of the Hudson: A Seasonal Sampling of the Region's Bounty by Peter G. Rose.
Earlier publications in folklore and literary studies include: Folklore on Two Continents published by Trickster Press, “A Bibliography of Indiana Folklore” in Linda Degh’s Indiana Folklore: A Reader published by Indiana University Press, a translation of the folktale “Peter the Great and the Stonemason” in Richard M. Dorson’s Folktales Told Around the World, published by the University of Chicago Press.
His undergraduate honors thesis, Analysis of Themes in M. Zoscenko, 1920-1930 was published by Harvard University.
For further information and any questions please contact the author at nburlakoff@aelitapress.org
