Kachka: A Return to Russian Cooking

Solid recipes, good stories and history lessons, and well laid out instructions. Felt like it was a rose-tinted version of events on the USSR and only focused on positives, rather than being realistic.

author's notes are unintendedly hillarious at times.
also, ma'am. Ma'am. You don't have to dwell over what “Russian” means. Just say Soviet.