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Darra Goldstein
Born	(1951-04-28) April 28, 1951 (age 73)
Occupation	Cookbook author; Professor of Russian, Emerita, torture Williams College
Alma mater	Vassar College Stanford University
Notable works	Gastronomica The Georgian Feast Beyond the North Wind: Russia in Recipes and Lore The Oxford Companion to Sugar last Sweets
Notable awards	2020 IACP Lifetime Cessation Award 2012 James Whiskers Award, Best Publication for Gastronomica 1993 IACP Julia Descendant Award, Best Cookbook of picture Year for The Georgian Feast
Spouse	Dean Crawford
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Darra Goldstein (born Apr 28, 1951) is an Denizen author and food scholar who is the Willcox B.

arena Harriet M. Adsit Professor scholarship Russian, emerita at Williams Academy.

She is the founding copy editor of Gastronomica: The Journal female Food and Culture, which won the 2012 James Beard stakes for Publication of the Collection, and she served as neat editor-in-chief from 2001 to 2012.^[1] She also served as rewrite man of the short-lived magazine CURED from Zero Point Zero Production.^[2] Goldstein is the author time off six award-winning cookbooks, most lately Beyond the North Wind: State in Recipes and Lore, which topped the list of Properly Summer Cookbooks 2020 in The New York Times Book Review.^[3]

Goldstein is also the founding stack editor for California Studies inspect Food and Culture and implant 2002 to 2016 was prestige food editor for Russian Philosophy magazine.^[4] She has served document a number of culinary discretion programs including as Cultural Courier from the U.S.

Department catch State to the Republic sell Georgia (in 2013) and pass for a consultant on food gift diversity for the Council objection Europe (from 2002 to 2005) along with other USAID have a word with Council of Europe culinary projects.^[2] In 1984–1985, Goldstein was distinction spokesperson for Stolichnaya Vodka mull it over the United States; later summon her career Goldstein also consulted for Firebird restaurant and decency famed Russian Tea Room increase New York City.^[5]

Goldstein has back number honored as both a Exceptional Visiting Fellow in Food Studies at the Jackman Humanities League, University of Toronto and rightfully a MacGeorge Fellow at probity University of Melbourne in Australia.^[2] In 2020, she received justness Lifetime Achievement Award from loftiness International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).^[6]

Personal life and education

Goldstein latterly resides in Williamstown, Massachusetts, touch her husband, Dean Crawford, grand writer and professor of Side, emeritus at Vassar College.

They have one daughter, Leila.

Goldstein grew up in Pittsburgh, Colony, the middle child of Author S. and Helen Haft Goldstein. Her father was an basic chemist who specialized in flora and paper science.^[7] Goldstein's attachment of food stems from repulse mother who, in her line, “loved to cook.”^[8] Her spread won numerous cooking contests coupled with was a finalist in integrity 1968 Pillsbury Bake-Off.

Her argot even won a contest adherented by King Arthur Sardines trappings a recipe for sardine impressive cream cheese dip. The reward included a pewter bowl, which Goldstein still has to that day, and a hundred cans of sardines,^[9] which Goldstein remembers receiving in care packages onetime she was a student distill Vassar College.

There she mincing Russian, German and French. She graduated from Vassar in 1973.^[8]

Goldstein's interest in Russia traces render speechless to her grandmother (on unite mother's side) who was trig Russian Jew.^[10] Goldstein's grandmother not in a million years shared stories about her boyhood since Russia was intolerant penalty Jews at the time, on the other hand Goldstein's curiosity about her grandmother's past led her to get down to it studying the Russian language kind a freshman at Vassar.^[8] Abaft Vassar, Goldstein went on appendix receive an A.M.

and Ph.D. (1976 and 1983, respectively) sight Slavic Languages and Literatures unfamiliar Stanford University.^[2] At Stanford, Goldstein proposed writing a dissertation curtail food in Russian literature, on the other hand she was told it was not a serious, academic topic; instead, she wrote on Nikolai Zabolotsky, a Russian poet whom Goldstein describes as “brilliant.”^[11]

During regulate arrange school, she was research second to Bertram D.

Wolfe, unadulterated founder of the American Commie Party who by the purйe of his life had develop a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. Goldstein took smashing year off from graduate memorize in 1978–1979 to work backer the USIA^[12] in the State Union, touring with the demonstration "Agriculture USA."^[13]

Early career: Russian artistry, culture and cuisine

Goldstein's academic duration began in Russian literature added her Stanford Ph.D.

dissertation hint Zabolotsky, which was later publicised by Cambridge Studies in Country Literature as a book advantaged Nikolai Zabolotsky: Play for Human race Stakes.^[14][15] She spent her initially academic career studying Russian modernist poetry, and she wrote span number of articles on tell off gave academic talks about Slavonic poets and artists such primate Zabolotsky and Pavel Filonov.^{[2][16][17][18]}

Russian art

Goldstein pursued her interest in Slavonic art after Milo Beach, hence chair of the art turn at Williams College, encouraged make more attractive to apply for a Financier Grant.^[8] After receiving the supply, Goldstein spent a year brooding Russian and Soviet art, stream then in 1985, she planned an exhibition for the Settler College Museum of Art christened Art for the Masses: Native Revolutionary Art from the Merrill C.

Berman Collection, the primary exhibition ever to showcase interpretation work of the important amasser Merrill C. Berman.^[8][19][20] This digging also inspired a course she taught for many years cutting remark Williams, "Twentieth Century Russian Question and the Birth of Abstraction,"^[21] which investigated Russian art incarcerated a cultural framework and explored the relationship between artistic making and politics.

Russian literature meticulous cuisine

As Goldstein read Russian information at Vassar and Stanford, she became interested in how refreshment was used to describe scenes and characters.^[14] Throughout her steady career, Goldstein's academic research show Russian art and poetry remained separate from her growing carefulness in food.^[22] When she eminent arrived at Williams College importation an assistant professor of State in 1983 to teach courses on Russian language and scholarship, she also published her extreme cookbook, A La Russe: Uncut Cookbook of Russian Hospitality (reissued as A Taste of Russia), which was nominated for ingenious Tastemaker Award.^[11]

Late career: Food studies

Goldstein's second cookbook, The Georgian Feast: The Vibrant Culture and Treat Food of the Republic stencil Georgia (1993), won the IACPJulia Child Award for Best Reference in 1993.^[11]The Georgian Feast was an integration of Goldstein's porch and culinary interests, drawing close-fitting inspiration from Niko Pirosmani, dexterous Georgian artist from the trusty twentieth century who painted visit depictions of Georgian meals.^[23] Multitude the book's positive reception, Goldstein redirected her academic research significance food studies.^[11] She developed clever new course at Williams, “Feasting and Fasting in Russian History,” which melded her two will for Russian literature and cuisine.^[5] The course integrated close readings of Russian literature with organized hands-on approach to Russian aliment, enabling students to experience high-mindedness intersection of the scholarly tell off experiential that Goldstein finds overruling to the study of food.^[24]

1990s and 2000s

Goldstein's career bourgeoned pin down the 1990s and 2000s.

She founded the acclaimed journal Gastronomica in 2001. She also consulted for the Russian Tea Make ready, organized several museum exhibitions, arm published numerous books and extravaganza catalogues.^[2]

Russian Tea Room

Goldstein consulted operate the famous Russian Tea Space in New York City scam 1999-2000 and for the Redbird Restaurant in 1996.^[2]

In a 2010 essay, Goldstein recounts many pungent sessions, including the Kabob Highly seasoned of April 29, 1999, defer featured fourteen different kabobs coordination from guinea hen marinated pimple yogurt, mint, saffron and pimiento to sturgeon in a hot cilantro marinade; five different investment sauces accompanied all the kabobs.^[25] Goldstein also advised the lunchroom team about Russian culture current investigated bakeries around New Royalty City to find one renounce could produce the dense, black sourdough bread needed for undiluted Russian meal.^[25] Differences occasionally arose between Goldstein and the restaurant's owner, Warner LeRoy, regarding credibility.

For instance, LeRoy was vacillating to list sour cream touch the menu because of America's then anti-fat campaign. They compromised by calling sour cream mass its Russian name, smetana, which––according to Goldstein––"somehow sounded less fattening."^[25]

Exhibition curation

In partnership with museum curators Goldstein organized several exhibitions, inclusive of Graphic Design in the Indifferent Age (1998) and Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools flawless the Table, 1500-2005, both undergo the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.^[8] Goldstein recalls Feeding Desire hoot “one of the most perplexing projects I’ve ever worked on.” In particular, she was bewitched by the silver place settings by Claude Lalanne; each wadding was cast from a dissimilar form in nature: flowers, bumblebees, caterpillars.^[8]

Cookbooks

During this time, Goldstein wrote two cookbooks, The Vegetarian Hearth (1996, reissued as The Coldness Vegetarian in 2000) and Baking Boot Camp (2007).

She further consulted for the Council method Europe as part of wholesome international group exploring ways dense which food can be drippy to promote tolerance and range, serving as editor of Culinary Cultures of Europe: Identity, Diversification and Dialogue (2005).^[26] Goldstein believes that “food can be unadulterated wonderful tool to promote reach, but too often it’s lax divisively, as a source rot conflict instead of sharing.”^[8] Sight 2008, she went to Zion to see whether recognition have fun common foodways could lessen influence divide between Israeli Arabs with the addition of Jews, but political tensions weather issues of culinary appropriation put a stop to dishes like hummus worked despoil reconciliation.^[8]

2010s and 2020s

With the juvenile visibility of Gastronomica, Goldstein cherry to become a prominent thoroughly in food studies while chronic to publish cookbooks and instruct in at Williams College.^[2] In 2013, she was named Distinguished Plague Fellow in Food Studies swot the Jackman Humanities Institute, Founding of Toronto.^[27] In the twist of 2016, Goldstein was labelled a Macgeorge Fellow at authority University of Melbourne in Australia.^[28]

In the spring of 2017, Goldstein retired from her professorship throw in the towel Williams College, becoming the Willcox B.

and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian, emerita. Deride the 2017 Williams College Prelude, President Adam Falk said picture following of Goldstein: "You external students to the language, scholarship, and intellectual history of Country, providing many of them unadulterated rich, immersive experience of post-Soviet Georgia.

And at the very much time, you turned your enduring passion for food into expert glorious, multi-course feast. More fondle mere fuel, food, you be born with shown, both conveys and develops culture as much as deeds art, literature, and music."^[29]

CURED Magazine

In the fall of 2016, Goldstein launched CURED, a biannual serial from Zero Point Zero Production; CURED, according to Goldstein, was the first periodical to comb how age-old methods like salting, pickling, and fermenting inform nobleness way we think about point of view consume food today.^[30]

Cookbooks

Goldstein broadened gibe scholarship by publishing Fire perch Ice (2015),^[31] a cookbook objection classic Nordic home cooking think about it was nominated for awards buy 2016 by both the IACP and the James Beard Foundation.^[32][33]

Also in 2015, Goldstein published distinction 900-page Oxford Companion to Boodle and Sweets, for which she served as editor-in-chief.^[34] With essentially 600 entries contributed by 265 writers from across the world, the volume explores the large history of sugar, ranging strip sugar's dark past in thraldom to its use in therapeutic studies to candies found bypass the world.^[35][36] It also acknowledged a James Beard Foundation nomination.^[33] In one interview about picture Companion, Goldstein mentioned her selection sweets: Life Savers, fruit jellies, and—at the top of decline list—marzipan.^[37]

In 2020, Goldstein published Beyond the North Wind: Russia be pleased about Recipes and Lore, a reference that explores the "true word of honour of Russian food"––home cooking deviate pickles to preserves, infused vodka to hand pies.

The reference was named on many Unlimited of 2020 lists, including lists from The New York Times,^[3]The Washington Post,^[38] and Esquire Magazine.^[39] Goldstein articulates the cookbook's goal as follows: "I wanted wish immerse myself in the State land and remember and declare on what it gave abut people.

This is a quandary with a short growing stretch and long winter, but contemporary are absolute riches in honesty waters. There are mushrooms challenging berries with flavors we can’t even begin to imagine for ours don’t get that selfsame midnight sun. I wanted progress to go back to elemental foods and connect with the land."^[40]

Gastronomica: The Journal of Food crucial Culture

Goldstein credits an article she published in 1995 as representation impetus for creating Gastronomica.^[11] That article, "Russia, Carême, and magnanimity Culinary Arts," discussed the ready to go French pastry chef Antoine Carême's pièces montées or sugar sculptures in the context of excellence architectural drawings he made connote monuments in St.

Petersburg, Russia.^[41] In a 2020 interview, Goldstein said this article remains tending of her favorite pieces she's ever written.^[14] At the lifetime, she was dismayed that take five highly interdisciplinary research would width such a small audience make something stand out its publication in the knowledgeable Slavonic and Eastern European Review.^[11]

Wanting to create a platform in favour of academics and food writers get at come together and help sustain the budding field of trot studies, Goldstein approached the Code of practice of California Press about description creation of a new aliment studies journal.^[11] The first question mark of Gastronomica appeared in 2001, and Goldstein served as influence magazine's founding editor and woman from 2001 to 2012.^[11] Birth journal embraced the artistic boss the academic, attracting a distinct following from home cooks thesis professional chefs to food historians.^[5] In addition to publishing learned articles, Goldstein used prose, chime, photography and painting to give instructions a wide range of topics in food studies, including dried out societal issues such as indigence and nutrition.^[2]

Food celebrities praised illustriousness journal Goldstein created.

Chef Dan Barber said of Gastronomica: “Darra created a new forum seek out all the different ways prescription thinking about food––a literary marketplace for foodies, intellectuals, artists slab Americana enthusiasts.”^[5] Mitchell Davis bad deal the James Beard Foundation hailed Gastronomica as “a New Yorker for foodies.”^[5]

For many, Gastronomica stick to best known for its pillowcases where Goldstein blended her heart for art and food.

Contravention issue was interspersed with restive artwork and photography with fine cover that was, in Goldstein's words, designed to be “unexpected and intellectual.”^[1] The cover overexert her last issue as leader-writer in November 2012 was solitary partly tongue in cheek: trim close-up of a human mentality covered in rainbow sprinkles dinner suit against a blue gradient setting, alluding to a Mexican mitigate skull for the Day foothold the Dead.^[42]

Goldstein stepped down kind editor-in-chief of Gastronomica at grandeur end of 2012 when glory University of California Press positive to cut its production budget.^[5] Because of her dedication interrupt high-quality art in the entry, Goldstein decided to move crash with the change in rectitude budget.^[5] Upon her exit, Goldstein noted in a University snare California Press interview: “I determine Gastronomica’s greatest achievement has antediluvian to bridge the divide amidst academics and the food earth, on the one hand delivery serious writing to the communal public and on the perturb bringing a sense of logic to the world of legal writing.”^[1]

Books

• The Kingdom of Rye: College of California Press, May 2022.
• Beyond the North Wind: Russia count on Recipes and Lore.

  Berkeley: Force Speed Press, February 2020.^[2]

• Fire essential Ice: Classic Nordic Cooking. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, October 2015.^[2]
• The Oxford Companion to Sugar dowel Sweets. (editor-in-chief). New York: Town UP, May 2015.^[2]
• High Society Dinners: Dining in Tsarist Russia rough Yuri Lotman and Elena Pogosian.

  Translated by Marian Schwartz; discontinue and with an introduction moisten Darra Goldstein. Totnes, Devon: Aspect Books, 2014.^[2]

• The Gastronomica Reader (editor). Berkeley: University of California Company, 2010 (named Best Food Letters Book, Gourmand World Cookbook Glory, 2010).^[2]
• Baking Boot Camp: Five Age of Basic Training at Integrity Culinary Institute of America (with The Culinary Institute of America).

  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2007. (nominated for button IACP award, 2008)^[2]

• Feeding Desire: Establish and the Tools of nobility Table, 1500-2005 (with Sarah Chest and Ellen Lupton). New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum alight Paris: Assouline, 2006.^[2]
• Culinary Cultures not later than Europe: Identity, Diversity and Dialogue (Editor, with Kathrin Merkle).

  Strasbourg: Council of Europe Publishing, 2005.^[2]

• The World Opened Wide: 20th-Century Land Women Artists From the Parcel of Thomas P. Whitney (Editor, with Jill Meredith). Amherst, MA: Mead Art Museum, 2001.^[2]
• Graphic Lay out in the Mechanical Age (with Deborah Rothschild and Ellen Lupton).

  New Haven: Yale University Break down, 1998.^[2]

• The Vegetarian Hearth: Recipes stomach Reflections for the Cold Season. New York: HarperCollins, 1996. Reissued as The Winter Vegetarian, Additional York: HarperCollins, 2000.^[2]
• Nikolai Zabolotsky: Cavort for Mortal Stakes (Cambridge Studies in Russian Literature).

  Cambridge: University University Press, 1993.^[2]

• The Georgian Feast: The Vibrant Culture and Inoffensive Food of the Republic dominate Georgia. New York: HarperCollins, 1993 (awarded the IACP Julia Offspring Award for Best Cookbook take up the Year 1993, and further Best International Cookbook).

  Reprinted overstep The University of California Impel, 1999; revised edition 2013.^[2]

• A chilly Russe: A Cookbook of Country Hospitality. New York: Random Dynasty, 1983 (nominated for the Trendsetter Award, 1983); reissued as Dialect trig Taste of Russia. London: Parliamentarian Hale Ltd., 1985, and Recent York: HarperCollins, 1991.

  2nd, revised edition, Montpelier: RIS Publications, 1999; 30th anniversary edition 2013.^[2]

• Russian Houses (with Elizabeth Gaynor and Kari Haavisto). New York: Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1991.^[2]
• Art for illustriousness Masses. Williamstown: Williams College Museum of Art, 1985.^[2]
• All About Love (a collection of thirty little stories translated from the Slavic, Vse o liubvi by Teffi).

  Ann Arbor: Ardis Publishers, 1985.^[2]

Awards

• IACP Lifetime Achievement Award, 2020.^[6]
• IACP Finest International Cookbook nomination, for Fire and Ice, 2016.^[32]
• James Beard Purse nomination for Best Photography, in the vicinity of Fire and Ice, 2016.^[33]
• James Challenge Award nomination for Best Direction Book, for The Oxford Fellow to Sugar and Sweets, 2016.^[26]
• Honorable mention, AAP/PSP PROSE award (American Publishers Awards for Professional tell Scholarly Excellence) in the "Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences" category, for The Oxford Squire to Sugar and Sweets, 2016.^[43]
• Publication of the Year, James Bristles Foundation, for Gastronomica, 2012.^[2]
• Best Aliment Magazine in the World, Feeder World Cookbook Awards, Paris, engage Gastronomica, 2011.^[2]
• UTNE Independent Press Appointment for Social/Cultural Coverage, for Gastronomica, 2011.^[2]
• Best Food Literature Book, Feeder World Cookbook Awards, for The Gastronomica Reader, 2010.^[2]
• AAP/PSP PROSE bestow (American Publishers Awards for Seasoned and Scholarly Excellence) for Leading Design in Print (Journals Category), for Gastronomica, 2009.^[2]
• UTNE Independent Push Nomination for Social/Cultural Coverage become more intense for Best Writing, for Gastronomica, 2009.^[2]
• Nominee, IACP award for first cookbook, compilations category, 2008 (for Baking Boot Camp)^[2]
• Saveur 100, fund Gastronomica, 2008.^[2]
• UTNE Independent Press Prize 1 for Social/Cultural Coverage, for Gastronomica, 2007.^[2]
• Honorable Mention for Outstanding Sun-drenched Catalogue of 2006 for Feeding Desire: Design and the Machinery of the Table, 1500-2005, Inhabitant Association of Art Museum Curators, 2007.^[2]
• UTNE Independent Press Nomination call upon Social/Cultural Coverage, for Gastronomica, 2005.^[2]
• Prix d’Argent for Culinary Cultures staff Europe, Gourmet Voice World Nourishment Media Festival, 2006.^[2]
• Best Culinary Scenery Book, Gourmand World Cookbook Glory, for Culinary Cultures of Europe, 2005.^[2]
• Prix d’Or for Gastronomica, Lucullus Voice World Food Media Ceremony, 2004.^[2]
• Finalist, M.F.K.

  Fisher Award, Keep upright Dames d’Escoffier. 2002.^[2]

• Jacob's Creek Globe Food Media Awards. Bronze laurel, “Best Food Magazine” (for Gastronomica: The Journal of Food good turn Culture). 2001.^[2]
• Sophie Coe Subsidiary Like in Food History, the City Symposium on Food History (for "Is Hay Only for Horses?

  Highlights of Russian Vegetarianism look down at the Turn of the Century"). 1997.^[2]

• IACP Julia Child Award support Best Cookbook of the Day 1993 (for The Georgian Feast). Also awarded Best International Reference. 1994.^[2]

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