Leo Tolstoy’s Household Recipe for Mac and Cheese

In 1874, Stepan Andree­vich Bers pub­lished The Cook dinner­e-book and gave it as a present to his sis­ter, depend­ess Sophia Andreev­na Tol­staya, the spouse of the good Russ­ian nov­el­ist, Leo Tol­stoy. The e-book con­tained a col­lec­tion of Tol­stoy fam­i­ly recipes, the dish­es they served to their fam­i­ly and buddies, these for­tu­nate souls who belonged to the aris­to­crat­ic…