Russian Foodways

Where in the world

• Russia territory

Communities and languages

Languages: Russian

What is recorded

• Not every food eaten in the Russian Federation is ethnically or historically Russian. Tatar, Bashkir, Sakha, Buryat, Tuvan, Chuvash, Komi, Nenets, Evenki, Chukchi, Kalmyk and North Caucasian traditions are recorded as their own cuisines. documented

Related foodways

This foodway relates to

• part of Northern European Foodways possible

Recorded as relating to this foodway

• originates from Circassian and Chechen Foodways in the Levant documented

  ⚠ NOT A RUSSIAN CUISINE — a CAUCASIAN one, carried by people the Russian conquest of the Caucasus expelled in 1864. The edge records the displacement, not a culinary descent.

• part of Russian Foodways in Moldova documented
• related to Belarusian Foodways documented

  Three centuries in the Russian Empire and then the USSR; much shared and neither one the other.

• related to Latvian Foodways documented

  Latgale above all, and two centuries in the Russian Empire.

• related to Left Bank of the Dniester — Foodways documented
• related to Moldovan Foodways documented

  Imperial and Soviet administration, Old Believer villages, and a Soviet canteen repertoire that became domestic.

• related to Rusyn Foodways possible

  ⚠ WEAK AND OFTEN OVERSTATED. Shared East Slavic and Orthodox inheritance and a Soviet-period overlay; not a close culinary relationship, and the "Carpatho-Russian" label used by some American parishes is a church-history term, not evidence of one.

• related to Setomaa Foodways documented

  Orthodox faith, a border running through the community, and a shared calendar.

• related to Soviet Foodways documented

  A multinational system that included Russian cooking and was not identical to it.

Regional cuisines

Recipes

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