They say we are what we eat. Have you ever thought about how the very principles of our feast were formed? How did these or those dishes appear? How did the kitchen evolve? How did restaurants appear and how did they change year after year? These and other aspects of domestic cuisine are revealed in his book by Alexander Genis. From the book Princess Grishka. The peculiarities of the national feast, you will learn how Soviet cuisine evolved, why in the 19th century peasants received more than half of their calories from bread, how berries, nuts and herbs were a help in the Russian economy for a long time, how the first Soviet restaurants appeared and developed. And this is only a small part of the topics that Alexander Genis touches in his book.