[Sca-cooks]Domostroi was Beets

[Johnna Holloway]

LC has this one as well as others--
Domostroi / izdanie podgotovili V.V. Kolesov, V.V. Rozhdestvenskaia.
Sankt-Peterburg : Nauka, 1994.
399 p. :
Other printed editions are listed in the Pouncy version on pp. 256-257.
Apparently it circulated in manuscript form in long and short versions 
for centuries before being printed.
Pouncy who did the abbreviated English version for Cornell University Press
 worked on it for her PhD dissertation at Stanford in the 1980's.

Johnnae

ekoogler1 at comcast.net wrote:

>Does anyone know where a copy of the original can be found?  I know several people who read/speak Russian fluently (they work for the folks at Fort Meade!), are in the SCA and would probably be willing to help out.
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>Kiri
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>>On the other hand, the text refers several times to "beet greens" but 
>>speaks of pickling beets. That might be a deliberate difference--it 
>>would be interesting to have someone who reads Russian check the 
>>original.
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>>David/Cariadoc
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