Chicken with Prunes excerpted from Salt & Time by Alissa Timoshkina. Copyright © 2019. Photographs by Lizzie Mayson. Used with permission from the publisher.
Salt & Time will transform perceptions of the food of the former Soviet Union, and especially Siberia—the crossroads of Eastern European and Central Asian cuisine—with 100 inviting recipes adapted for modern tastes and Western kitchens, and evocative storytelling to explain and entice. Why not try the restorative Solyanka fish soup (a famous Russian hangover cure), savour the fragrant Chicken with prunes or treat yourself to some Napoleon cake.