Darra Goldstein graduated from Vassar College in 1973, and received a Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1983. She is currently a professor of Russian at Williams College in Williamstown, MA. Her areas of interest are Russian poetry, Russian Avant-Garde art, and Russian cultural and culinary studies. She has recently become the editor of a new food journal, Gastronomica: The Journal of Food and Culture, and a consultant to the famous New York restaurant, the Russian Tea Room. She won the Julia Child Award for the 1993 Best Cookbook of the Year (The Georgian Feast), and the Sophie Coe Subsidiary Prize in Food History in 1997.
Publications:
"The Cheese and the Sorceress." Gourmet 60 (September 2000): 58-63.
Science Periodical, TX1 .G75

"Blood Oranges of the Mediterranean." Bon Appetit 44 (April 1999): 73-75.
Science Periodical, TX633 .B65 21

A Taste of Russia: A Cookbook of Russian Hospitality. 2nd ed. Montpelier, VT : Russian Life Books, 1999.
Science Lib 3rd Floor, TX 723.3 .G64 1999

"Getting Back to Our Roots." Yankee 62 (January 1998): 42-48.

"Is Hay Only for Horses? Highlights of Russian Vegetarianism at the Turn of the Century." In Food in Russian History and Culture, ed. Musya Glants and Joyce Toomre, 102-19. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997.
King Library, GT2853.R8 F66 1997

"Hold the Smetana!" Russian Life 39 (December 1996): 28-30.
King Library Periodicals (shelved by title)

"Domestic Porkbarreling in Nineteenth-Century Russia, or Who Holds the Keys to the Larder?" In Russia, Women, Culture, ed. Helena Goscilo and Beth Holmgren, 125-51. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.
King Library, DK189.2 .R87 1996

The Vegetarian Hearth: Recipes and Reflections for the Cold Season. New York: HarperCollins, 1996.

The Georgian Feast: The Vibrant Culture and Savory Food of the Republic of Georgia. New York: HarperCollins, 1992.
Science Lib 3rd Floor, TX723.4 .G65 1992

Russian Houses, with Elizabeth Gaynor and Kari Haavisto. New York : Stewart, Tabori & Chang, 1991.
ArtArch, NA7367 .G3 1991

"Selling an Idea: Modernism and Consumer Culture." In Graphic Design in the Mechanical Age: Selections from the Merrill C. Berman Collection, with Deborah Rothschild and Ellen Lupton, 95-129. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press in conjunction with Williams College Museum of Art and the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, 1998.
ArtArch, NA7367 .G3 1991

"The Heartfelt Poetry of Elena Shvarts." In Fruits of Her Plume : Essays on Contemporary Russian Woman's Culture, ed. Helena Goscilo, 239-50. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 1993.
King Library, PG2997 .F78 1993

Nikolai Zabolotsky: Play for Mortal Stakes. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

"'Moscow in Fences': Viktor Sosnora at the Gate." Russian Review 51 (1992): 230-37.
King Library Periodicals (shelved by title)

"Russia's Country Cottages." Country Living 14 (October 1991): 105-113.
Available full text through Periodical Abstracts.

"An Interview with Viktor Sosnora." New York Review of Books 14 (October 13, 1988): 44-47.
King IMC Microfilm Periodical (shelved by title)

"Zabolockij and Ciolkovskij." RusL. 13 (Jan. 1, 1983): 65-80.

Sources of biographical information:
"Darra Goldstein." Directory of American Scholars. 9th ed. Gale Group, 1999. Biography Resource Center. (22 January 2001).

Julian, Sheryl. "The Scholar Who Came In From the Cold in Russian History." Boston Globe Third Edition. 2 February 2000, sec. E, p. 1. Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. (6 February 2001).

"Darra Goldstein Professor of Russian" Latest revision date unknown. http://www.williams.edu/CFLang/Faculty/facprofiles/goldstein.html (22 January 2001).