Zakuski

Zakuski
CourseHors d'oeuvre or snack
Place of originEurasia
Region or stateEastern Europe, Northern Europe, Asia
Main ingredientsCold cuts, cured fishes, mixed salads, pickled vegetables, kholodets, pirozhki, hard cheeses, caviar, roe, canapés, open sandwiches, breads

Zakuski (plural from Russian: закуски [zɐˈkuskʲɪ]; singular zakuska from закуска; Polish: zakąski, zakąska) is an assortment of cold hors d'oeuvres, entrées and snacks in food culture in Slavic-speaking countries.[1][2] It is served as a course on its own or "intended to follow each shot of vodka or another alcoholic drink".[3] The word literally means 'something to bite after'.[4] It probably originated and was influenced through the fusion of Slavic, Viking-Nordic and Oriental cultures in early Rus' regions like the Novgorod Republic.[5][6]

  1. ^ "Zakuski". Culture and Customs of Russia. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2000. ISBN 9780313311017.
  2. ^ Alan Davidson (2014). "Zakuski". The Oxford Companion to Food. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 889–890. ISBN 9780191040726.
  3. ^ Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Russian
  4. ^ Закуска. С.И. Ожегов, Н.Ю. Шведова. Толковый словарь русского языка. 1949-1992. (in Russian)
  5. ^ Sharon, Hudgins (2018-05-15). T-bone whacks and caviar snacks : cooking with two Texans in Siberia and the Russian Far East. Hudgins, Tom. Denton, Texas. p. 18. ISBN 9781574417227. OCLC 1035845794.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  6. ^ "Food". Retrieved 7 November 2018.