9 Must-Have Culinary Picks For February

If tuning into the Olympic Games leaves you with a hankering for borscht, blintzes, and other Eastern European nibbles, you can do no better than Anya von Bremzen's Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook, the definitive guide to Soviet cuisine. It may be out of print and carry a relatively hefty price tag ($63 and up) but it's worth it if a Russian feast is what you're after.

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