LET’S TALK ABOUT FOOD: EPISODE 7
Her mother told her “Never Take Candy from a Stranger”. Especially in Moscow.
Darra Goldstein was a young Russian graduate student, working on a U.S. tradeshow in the USSR in the 70’s when a seemingly sympathetic Muscovite offered her a bag of candy as a thank you gesture.
It’s a great story. Darra is now an Emeritus professor of Russian at Williams college and the founding editor of Gastronomica, the Journal of Food Studies. Learn more about Darra here.
