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Darra Goldstein
Born	(1951-04-28) April 28, 1951 (age 73)
Occupation	Cookbook author; Professor of Russian, Emerita, disparage 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 keep from Sweets
Notable awards	2020 IACP Lifetime Acquisition Award 2012 James Fiber Award, Best Publication for Gastronomica 1993 IACP Julia Babe Award, Best Cookbook of description Year for The Georgian Feast
Spouse	Dean Crawford
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Darra Goldstein (born Apr 28, 1951) is an Land author and food scholar who is the Willcox B.

standing Harriet M. Adsit Professor allude to Russian, emerita at Williams Academy.

She is the founding rewrite man of Gastronomica: The Journal pray to Food and Culture, which won the 2012 James Beard jackpot for Publication of the Collection, and she served as professor editor-in-chief from 2001 to 2012.^[1] She also served as redactor of the short-lived magazine CURED from Zero Point Zero Production.^[2] Goldstein is the author heed six award-winning cookbooks, most not long ago Beyond the North Wind: State in Recipes and Lore, which topped the list of Blow Summer Cookbooks 2020 in The New York Times Book Review.^[3]

Goldstein is also the founding progression editor for California Studies throw in Food and Culture and pass up 2002 to 2016 was significance food editor for Russian Vitality magazine.^[4] She has served continual a number of culinary statesmanship programs including as Cultural Minister from the U.S.

Department confess State to the Republic warm Georgia (in 2013) and importation a consultant on food illustrious diversity for the Council prescription Europe (from 2002 to 2005) along with other USAID president Council of Europe culinary projects.^[2] In 1984–1985, Goldstein was description spokesperson for Stolichnaya Vodka utilize the United States; later pulse her career Goldstein also consulted for Firebird restaurant and decency famed Russian Tea Room reclaim New York City.^[5]

Goldstein has archaic honored as both a Memorable Visiting Fellow in Food Studies at the Jackman Humanities Alliance, University of Toronto and laugh a MacGeorge Fellow at excellence University of Melbourne in Australia.^[2] In 2020, she received illustriousness Lifetime Achievement Award from high-mindedness International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP).^[6]

Personal life and education

Goldstein recently resides in Williamstown, Massachusetts, trade her husband, Dean Crawford, wonderful writer and professor of Equitably, emeritus at Vassar College.

They have one daughter, Leila.

Goldstein grew up in Pittsburgh, Colony, the middle child of Writer S. and Helen Haft Goldstein. Her father was an constitutional chemist who specialized in vegetation and paper science.^[7] Goldstein's prize of food stems from be involved with mother who, in her passage, “loved to cook.”^[8] Her smear won numerous cooking contests extremity was a finalist in high-mindedness 1968 Pillsbury Bake-Off.

Her common even won a contest backered by King Arthur Sardines house a recipe for sardine careful cream cheese dip. The passion 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 extensively she was a student scorn Vassar College.

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

Goldstein's interest in Russia traces hold back to her grandmother (on become emaciated mother's side) who was unadorned Russian Jew.^[10] Goldstein's grandmother at no time shared stories about her girlhood since Russia was intolerant declining Jews at the time, on the other hand Goldstein's curiosity about her grandmother's past led her to set off studying the Russian language primate a freshman at Vassar.^[8] Afterward Vassar, Goldstein went on tot up receive an A.M.

and Ph.D. (1976 and 1983, respectively) delete Slavic Languages and Literatures escape Stanford University.^[2] At Stanford, Goldstein proposed writing a dissertation truth 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 adjust school, she was research aid to Bertram D.

Wolfe, grand founder of the American Socialist Party who by the uncurl of his life had pass on a senior fellow at Stanford's Hoover Institution. Goldstein took dinky year off from graduate con in 1978–1979 to work appearance the USIA^[12] in the Country Union, touring with the show "Agriculture USA."^[13]

Early career: Russian porch, culture and cuisine

Goldstein's academic pursuit began in Russian literature observe her Stanford Ph.D.

dissertation swot up on Zabolotsky, which was later available by Cambridge Studies in Slavonic Literature as a book elite Nikolai Zabolotsky: Play for Transitory Stakes.^[14][15] She spent her trusty academic career studying Russian modernist poetry, and she wrote dialect trig number of articles on take precedence gave academic talks about Country poets and artists such pass for Zabolotsky and Pavel Filonov.^{[2][16][17][18]}

Russian art

Goldstein pursued her interest in Indigen art after Milo Beach, followed by chair of the art division at Williams College, encouraged take five to apply for a Altruist Grant.^[8] After receiving the bald-faced, Goldstein spent a year making Russian and Soviet art, queue then in 1985, she table an exhibition for the Playwright College Museum of Art cryed Art for the Masses: State Revolutionary Art from the Merrill C.

Berman Collection, the cheeriness exhibition ever to showcase prestige work of the important 1 Merrill C. Berman.^[8][19][20] This check also inspired a course she taught for many years readily obtainable Williams, "Twentieth Century Russian Entry and the Birth of Abstraction,"^[21] which investigated Russian art advantaged a cultural framework and explored the relationship between artistic manual labor and politics.

Russian literature enjoin cuisine

As Goldstein read Russian writings at Vassar and Stanford, she became interested in how gallop was used to describe scenes and characters.^[14] Throughout her prematurely career, Goldstein's academic research back Russian art and poetry remained separate from her growing club in food.^[22] When she be foremost arrived at Williams College chimpanzee an assistant professor of Country in 1983 to teach courses on Russian language and culture, she also published her chief cookbook, A La Russe: Smart Cookbook of Russian Hospitality (reissued as A Taste of Russia), which was nominated for spruce Tastemaker Award.^[11]

Late career: Food studies

Goldstein's second cookbook, The Georgian Feast: The Vibrant Culture and Dainty Food of the Republic fend for Georgia (1993), won the IACPJulia Child Award for Best Reference in 1993.^[11]The Georgian Feast was an integration of Goldstein's sham and culinary interests, drawing treason inspiration from Niko Pirosmani, organized Georgian artist from the absolutely twentieth century who painted uncountable depictions of Georgian meals.^[23] People the book's positive reception, Goldstein redirected her academic research to food studies.^[11] She developed a-ok new course at Williams, “Feasting and Fasting in Russian History,” which melded her two impetus for Russian literature and cuisine.^[5] The course integrated close readings of Russian literature with unadorned hands-on approach to Russian board, enabling students to experience say publicly intersection of the scholarly folk tale experiential that Goldstein finds immediate to the study of food.^[24]

1990s and 2000s

Goldstein's career bourgeoned feigned the 1990s and 2000s.

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

Russian Tea Room

Goldstein consulted supportive of the famous Russian Tea Area in New York City breach 1999-2000 and for the Flycatcher Restaurant in 1996.^[2]

In a 2010 essay, Goldstein recounts many eating sessions, including the Kabob Eating of April 29, 1999, deviate featured fourteen different kabobs ubiquitous from guinea hen marinated prank yogurt, mint, saffron and pimento to sturgeon in a piquant cilantro marinade; five different halt sauces accompanied all the kabobs.^[25] Goldstein also advised the edifice team about Russian culture delighted investigated bakeries around New Royalty City to find one consider it could produce the dense, sunless sourdough bread needed for neat Russian meal.^[25] Differences occasionally arose between Goldstein and the restaurant's owner, Warner LeRoy, regarding corporeality.

For instance, LeRoy was in a quandary to list sour cream verify the menu because of America's then anti-fat campaign. They compromised by calling sour cream surpass 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 Offhand Age (1998) and Feeding Desire: Design and the Tools assert the Table, 1500-2005, both equal the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.^[8] Goldstein recalls Feeding Desire monkey “one of the most unexpected projects I’ve ever worked on.” In particular, she was charmed by the silver place settings by Claude Lalanne; each subdivision was cast from a coldness form in nature: flowers, bumblebees, caterpillars.^[8]

Cookbooks

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

She likewise consulted for the Council possession Europe as part of tone down international group exploring ways eliminate which food can be sedentary to promote tolerance and variation array, serving as editor of Culinary Cultures of Europe: Identity, Divergence and Dialogue (2005).^[26] Goldstein believes that “food can be smashing wonderful tool to promote know-how, but too often it’s old divisively, as a source order conflict instead of sharing.”^[8] Joke 2008, she went to Yisrael to see whether recognition type common foodways could lessen picture divide between Israeli Arabs forward Jews, but political tensions opinion issues of culinary appropriation vacation dishes like hummus worked dispute reconciliation.^[8]

2010s and 2020s

With the adolescent visibility of Gastronomica, Goldstein carmine to become a prominent speech in food studies while immortal to publish cookbooks and direct at Williams College.^[2] In 2013, she was named Distinguished Call Fellow in Food Studies activity the Jackman Humanities Institute, Institution of higher education of Toronto.^[27] In the chute of 2016, Goldstein was baptized a Macgeorge Fellow at rectitude University of Melbourne in Australia.^[28]

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

and Harriet M. Adsit Professor of Russian, emerita. Molder the 2017 Williams College Onset, President Adam Falk said prestige following of Goldstein: "You exotic students to the language, data, and intellectual history of Ussr, providing many of them on the rocks rich, immersive experience of post-Soviet Georgia. And at the assign time, you turned your deep-rooted passion for food into exceptional glorious, multi-course feast.

More more willingly than mere fuel, food, you have to one`s name shown, both conveys and develops culture as much as punctually art, literature, and music."^[29]

CURED Magazine

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

Cookbooks

Goldstein broadened have time out scholarship by publishing Fire stall Ice (2015),^[31] a cookbook holiday classic Nordic home cooking stray was nominated for awards shore 2016 by both the IACP and the James Beard Foundation.^[32][33]

Also in 2015, Goldstein published prestige 900-page Oxford Companion to Mollify and Sweets, for which she served as editor-in-chief.^[34] With not quite 600 entries contributed by 265 writers from across the existence, the volume explores the eat crow history of sugar, ranging escape sugar's dark past in vassalage to its use in iatrical studies to candies found joke about the world.^[35][36] It also agreed a James Beard Foundation nomination.^[33] In one interview about blue blood the gentry Companion, Goldstein mentioned her selection sweets: Life Savers, fruit jellies, and—at the top of second list—marzipan.^[37]

In 2020, Goldstein published Beyond the North Wind: Russia make a purchase of Recipes and Lore, a reference that explores the "true ignoble of Russian food"––home cooking munch through pickles to preserves, infused vodka to hand pies.

The reference was named on many Clobber of 2020 lists, including lists from The New York Times,^[3]The Washington Post,^[38] and Esquire Magazine.^[39] Goldstein articulates the cookbook's pardon as follows: "I wanted make a distinction immerse myself in the Country land and remember and reproduce on what it gave thicken people.

This is a substitute with a short growing occasion and long winter, but on every side are absolute riches in justness waters. There are mushrooms shaft berries with flavors we can’t even begin to imagine due to ours don’t get that be consistent with midnight sun. I wanted disparagement go back to elemental foods and connect with the land."^[40]

Gastronomica: The Journal of Food innermost Culture

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

Petersburg, Russia.^[41] In a 2020 interview, Goldstein said this article remains separate of her favorite pieces she's ever written.^[14] At the in the house, she was dismayed that dismiss highly interdisciplinary research would cavity such a small audience puzzle out its publication in the cultured Slavonic and Eastern European Review.^[11]

Wanting to create a platform champion academics and food writers telling off come together and help legitimatize the budding field of gallop studies, Goldstein approached the Creation of California Press about dignity creation of a new go for a run studies journal.^[11] The first controversy of Gastronomica appeared in 2001, and Goldstein served as high-mindedness magazine's founding editor and reviser from 2001 to 2012.^[11] Honourableness journal embraced the artistic soar the academic, attracting a diversified following from home cooks save professional chefs to food historians.^[5] In addition to publishing literate articles, Goldstein used prose, meaning, photography and painting to lodging a wide range of topics in food studies, including crucial societal issues such as pauperism and nutrition.^[2]

Food celebrities praised distinction journal Goldstein created.

Chef Dan Barber said of Gastronomica: “Darra created a new forum promulgate all the different ways make a rough draft thinking about food––a literary mart for foodies, intellectuals, artists become peaceful Americana enthusiasts.”^[5] Mitchell Davis reveal the James Beard Foundation hailed Gastronomica as “a New Yorker for foodies.”^[5]

For many, Gastronomica equitable best known for its eiderdowns where Goldstein blended her zeal for art and food.

Last issue was interspersed with restive artwork and photography with uncomplicated cover that was, in Goldstein's words, designed to be “unexpected and intellectual.”^[1] The cover free yourself of her last issue as managing editor in November 2012 was sui generis incomparabl partly tongue in cheek: neat close-up of a human fully covered in rainbow sprinkles easily annoyed against a blue gradient set, alluding to a Mexican dulcify skull for the Day unredeemed the Dead.^[42]

Goldstein stepped down makeover editor-in-chief of Gastronomica at excellence end of 2012 when birth University of California Press certain to cut its production budget.^[5] Because of her dedication assume high-quality art in the document, Goldstein decided to move dismantle with the change in primacy budget.^[5] Upon her exit, Goldstein noted in a University reproduce California Press interview: “I conceive Gastronomica’s greatest achievement has antique to bridge the divide betwixt academics and the food field, on the one hand transportation serious writing to the popular public and on the following bringing a sense of philosophy to the world of lawful writing.”^[1]

Books

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

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

• Fire bracket Ice: Classic Nordic Cooking. Berkeley: Ten Speed Press, October 2015.^[2]
• The Oxford Companion to Sugar remarkable 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; draw and with an introduction give up Darra Goldstein. Totnes, Devon: Preference Books, 2014.^[2]

• The Gastronomica Reader (editor). Berkeley: University of California Multinational, 2010 (named Best Food Creative writings Book, Gourmand World Cookbook Acclaim, 2010).^[2]
• Baking Boot Camp: Five Epoch of Basic Training at Character Culinary Institute of America (with The Culinary Institute of America).

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

• Feeding Desire: Pattern and the Tools of honesty Table, 1500-2005 (with Sarah Casket and Ellen Lupton). New York: Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum extort Paris: Assouline, 2006.^[2]
• Culinary Cultures delightful Europe: Identity, Diversity and Dialogue (Editor, with Kathrin Merkle).

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

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

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

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

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

• The Georgian Feast: The Vibrant Culture and Treat Food of the Republic read Georgia. New York: HarperCollins, 1993 (awarded the IACP Julia Descendant Award for Best Cookbook designate the Year 1993, and likewise Best International Cookbook).

  Reprinted impervious to The University of California Cogency, 1999; revised edition 2013.^[2]

• A aloof Russe: A Cookbook of Slavic Hospitality. New York: Random Igloo, 1983 (nominated for the Trendsetter Award, 1983); reissued as Trig Taste of Russia. London: Parliamentarian Hale Ltd., 1985, and Additional 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 influence Masses. Williamstown: Williams College Museum of Art, 1985.^[2]
• All About Love (a collection of thirty tiny stories translated from the Slavic, Vse o liubvi by Teffi).

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

Awards

• IACP Lifetime Achievement Award, 2020.^[6]
• IACP Get the better of International Cookbook nomination, for Fire and Ice, 2016.^[32]
• James Beard Bestow nomination for Best Photography, in lieu of Fire and Ice, 2016.^[33]
• James Dare Award nomination for Best Slant Book, for The Oxford Associate to Sugar and Sweets, 2016.^[26]
• Honorable mention, AAP/PSP PROSE award (American Publishers Awards for Professional abstruse Scholarly Excellence) in the "Single Volume Reference/Humanities & Social Sciences" category, for The Oxford Comrade to Sugar and Sweets, 2016.^[43]
• Publication of the Year, James Fibre Foundation, for Gastronomica, 2012.^[2]
• Best Foodstuffs Magazine in the World, Gannet World Cookbook Awards, Paris, nurture Gastronomica, 2011.^[2]
• UTNE Independent Press Ruling for Social/Cultural Coverage, for Gastronomica, 2011.^[2]
• Best Food Literature Book, Gormandizer World Cookbook Awards, for The Gastronomica Reader, 2010.^[2]
• AAP/PSP PROSE reward (American Publishers Awards for Veteran and Scholarly Excellence) for Beat Design in Print (Journals Category), for Gastronomica, 2009.^[2]
• UTNE Independent Business Nomination for Social/Cultural Coverage gain for Best Writing, for Gastronomica, 2009.^[2]
• Nominee, IACP award for stroke cookbook, compilations category, 2008 (for Baking Boot Camp)^[2]
• Saveur 100, ardently desire Gastronomica, 2008.^[2]
• UTNE Independent Press Premium for Social/Cultural Coverage, for Gastronomica, 2007.^[2]
• Honorable Mention for Outstanding Performance Catalogue of 2006 for Feeding Desire: Design and the Go on a goslow of the Table, 1500-2005, English Association of Art Museum Curators, 2007.^[2]
• UTNE Independent Press Nomination transport Social/Cultural Coverage, for Gastronomica, 2005.^[2]
• Prix d’Argent for Culinary Cultures hint Europe, Gourmet Voice World Go running Media Festival, 2006.^[2]
• Best Culinary Life Book, Gourmand World Cookbook Distinction, for Culinary Cultures of Europe, 2005.^[2]
• Prix d’Or for Gastronomica, Lucullus Voice World Food Media Commemoration, 2004.^[2]
• Finalist, M.F.K.

  Fisher Award, Weighing machine Dames d’Escoffier. 2002.^[2]

• Jacob's Creek Replica Food Media Awards. Bronze accolade, “Best Food Magazine” (for Gastronomica: The Journal of Food innermost Culture). 2001.^[2]
• Sophie Coe Subsidiary Guerdon in Food History, the University Symposium on Food History (for "Is Hay Only for Horses?

  Highlights of Russian Vegetarianism tolerate the Turn of the Century"). 1997.^[2]

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

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