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| Course | Hors d'oeuvre or snack |
|---|---|
| Place of origin | Eurasia |
| Region or state | Eastern Europe, Northern Europe, Asia |
| Main ingredients | Cold 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]
- ^ "Zakuski". Culture and Customs of Russia. Greenwood Publishing Group. 2000. ISBN 9780313311017.
- ^ Alan Davidson (2014). "Zakuski". The Oxford Companion to Food. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 889–890. ISBN 9780191040726.
- ^ Encyclopaedia of Contemporary Russian
- ^ Закуска. С.И. Ожегов, Н.Ю. Шведова. Толковый словарь русского языка. 1949-1992. (in Russian)
- ^ 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) - ^ "Food". Retrieved 7 November 2018.