"The Kitchen of the Century" is the last, final book by the famous culinary writer William Pokhlebkin, completed by him a few days before his tragic death. Russian Russian cuisine The first and so far the only detailed study of the history of Russian cuisine of the XX century is food in the Russian army of 1905-1908, food during the First World War, during the revolution, NEP, pre-war years, at the front of the Great Patriotic War and the years of the blockade, postwar, 60-90-ies. The publication is supplemented with chapters on the main cuisines of the world, culinary biographies of the "great eaters" of the century and titled chefs, as well as on food systems and the evolution of kitchen utensils. The book is published on high-quality white paper with illustrations - historical photographs, reproductions of paintings, product labels of those times, reproductions of historical menus.