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Pavel Spiridonov & Nicolas Delaroche (photographies) La Cuisine russe. Recettes pour tous les jours. Editions Noir sur Blanc, 2018. 200 pages (19 Euros/24 CHF)

Voici un excellent cadeau pour les amis francophones. Pour tous les jours.


Connaissez-vous la cuisine russe ? Que trouve-t-on sur les tables de cet immense pays, qui commence aux frontières de l’Europe et déroule ses forêts et ses steppes jusqu’à l’océan Pacifique ? Les saveurs varient dans ce vaste territoire, mais on retrouve partout le même goût pour les soupes, le poisson, la divine pomme de terre et les crêpes fourrées.

Au fil des pages, pimentées d’anecdotes tirées de l’histoire russe ou de la vie quotidienne en URSS, Pavel Spiridonov nous donne accès aux goûts de son enfance passée à Saint-Pétersbourg. Avec des produits faciles à trouver dans nos régions, il dévoile 36 recettes épatantes, du borchtch au bœuf Stroganoff, de la salade de betteraves aux pâtisseries, jusqu’aux plats plus orientaux de Géorgie et d’Arménie, tels que les dolmas ou la sauce Tkemali. En complice averti, Nicolas Delaroche suit le cuisinier dans un reportage photographique qui détaille les étapes de préparation, depuis les achats au marché jusqu’au dîner entre amis.

Né à Saint-Pétersbourg en 1976, Pavel Spiridonov vit désormais à Lausanne. Passionné de cuisine depuis toujours, il a publié un premier ouvrage sur ce thème, La Cuisine de ma mère, aux Éditions Minerva en 2007.

Photographe franco-suisse né en 1985, Nicolas Delaroche a étudié à l’École cantonale d’art de Lausanne et a terminé un Master en art contemporain à la Haute école des arts de Berne. Il expose régulièrement son travail dans divers pays, avec notamment plusieurs expositions récentes en Chine et à Macau.

L'interview avec Pavel Spiridonov est à lire ici.

About the author

Nadia Sikorsky

Nadia Sikorsky was born and raised in Moscow. She graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at Moscow State University and went on to complete her postgraduate studies there, earning a PhD in History. She spent 13 years at UNESCO, first in Paris and then in Geneva. After serving as Director of Communications at Green Cross International, founded by Mikhail Gorbachev, she launched NashaGazeta.ch in 2007, Switzerland’s first Russian-language online daily newspaper.

In 2022, Nadia Sikorsky was named to Le Temps’ Forum des 100, which brings together individuals who, in the newspaper’s view, have “significantly contributed to the success of French-speaking Switzerland”, from across public life, business, politics, science and culture.

After 18 years at the helm of NashaGazeta.ch, Nadia Sikorsky decided to devote herself to what had always held a special place in her work as a journalist: culture in all its diversity. This led to the creation of Russian Accent, a trilingual cultural blog in Russian, French and English, born in the heart of Europe, in Switzerland, which has become her second home and whose multiculturalism and multilingualism have helped shape the character of this new project.

At the heart of the project is the perspective of a European of Russian origin, drawing on more than 35 years of professional experience and a deep knowledge of both cultural traditions. Nadia Sikorsky sees her role as that of a cultural mediator between the two. The title of the blog, Russian Accent, reflects this idea: the accent is neither a linguistic barrier nor a political position, but a distinctive cultural imprint within a European context.

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