A Vegetarian's Tale: Tolstoy's Family Vegetarian Recipes Adapted for the Modern Kitchen

This is a fun light book to read.  Good for an afternoon on the couch during a snowstorm.  You are reading about recipes and looking at wonderful pictures of the different foods mentioned in Leo Tolstoy's novels.  Now those recipes are created to be cooked and tasted by the average reader.

Once again there is so much butter added to these recipes, that I cannot in good conscience eat them,  But all of the original recipes in the book have been updated and tweaked a little to make them taste good and easy to prepare for the modern audience.  I do think I would prefer to see how to really make them the original way with a little more guidance.  Some of the new revisions seem to change the recipe completely for the modern reader.

So pulling recipes from the writings of Tolstoy is a creative idea.  There are so many other authors where you could create a cookbook based on their novels.