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New Cookbook for Germans from Russia published
April 1, 2004
The North Dakota State University Libraries is pleased to announce
the publication of this important new book, "Cookbook for Germans
from Russia". Our appreciation is extended to Nelly Daes and
the Landsmannschaft der Deutschen aus Russland for permission to translate
and publish this valuable work. The cookbook was translated from German
to English by Alex Herzog with editing by Janice Huber Stangl.
Between 1763 and 1815, people from very different areas, notably Schwabia,
Baden and Hesse, left their homelands to emigrate to distant reaches
of Russia, but they took their culture along with them. Customs and
traditions are certainly part of culture, but so are foodways, too.
I would imagine that in those days there were few if any cookbooks,
so that most women were, at best, left to collecting a series of handwritten
recipes. In the colonist villages, recipes were passed on from mother
to daughter. Today the Aussiedler are returning to their original
country with recipes that have been handed down for 200 years.
Colonist women in their various settlement areas would of course take
a peek into the pots of their Ukrainian and Russian neighbors. In
the course of time, they adopted certain dishes from them. During
the first few years, however, dishes were prepared just the way they
had been in the old country.
A few of these recipes can be found in some cookbooks, but not in
this complete form. This cookbook is intended, for one, to present
recipes from their former homes to the long-established Germans from
Russia who arrived in Germany soon after World War II, and for another,
to furnish the newcomers with recipes from their new home. It was
important to me that the gastronomic culture of our people be mirrored
in the story of their lives. This means, for example, that from the
recipes one can discern the exile locales of the Aussiedler. For this
reason, some recipes herein are at times embedded in small stories
and not necessarily arranged in cookbook format.
About the Translator
Alex Herzog was born in 1938 in Lichtenfeld, Ukraine, to German descendants
of farmer immigrants from Germany. With his parents and siblings he
was transplanted, between 1944 and 1947, from the Ukraine to Poland,
Berlin, East Germany, then to West Germany. He began his higher education
in Fulda, Germany and completed his BA, MA and ABD in mathematics
after the family emigrated to the U.S. in 1953. Having retired in
1993 from a long career as programmer and manager with IBM, he is
now a freelance translator and lives in Boulder, Colorado. He is married
to Dr. Nancy Herzog and has two sons, a daughter, and four grandchildren.
Alex's translation work includes the book, "Flotsam of World
History: The Germans from Russia between Stalin and Hitler",
by R.H. Walth, which he co-translated with his brother, Prof. Dr.
Michael Herzog of Spokane, Washington. In recent years he has provided
volunteer translation work for the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection,
including many articles, brochures, and pamphlets published on the
GRHC website.
"What I like about Nellys cookbook is her inclusion of, at times
amusing, and at other times very sad and tragic anecdotes, as well
as the descriptions of the Black Sea Germans customs and folkways
- all woven between and around the recipes. Also, the recipes she
presents are more inclusive than the book title indicates, because
they stem not only from the Black Sea area, but also from Asia and
Germany."
About the Editor
Janice Huber Stangl is a Germans from Russia descendant, a native
of South Dakota, an author of the book, "Marienberg: Fate of
a Village", a member of the Board of Directors of Germans from
Russia Heritage Society and friend of the author.
This book contains not only recipes, but also humorous and heart wrenching
anecdotes from the German Russian diaspora. It is essential addition
to every household.
To order the cookbook, send $20 plus $3 postage payable to NDSU Library.
Mail to: Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, Cookbook for Germans
from Russia, NDSU Libraries, PO Box 5599, Fargo ND 58105-5599. Website
address to order the cookbook is: library.ndsu.edu/grhc/order/cookbooks/das.html. |
Permission
to use any images from the GRHC website may be requested
by contacting Michael
M. Miller |
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