Boris Fishman’s “Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table” tracks, in an expansive, leisurely way, the author’s Jewish Russian family – two grandparents, his parents and ...

Boris Fishman’s “Savage Feast: Three Generations, Two Continents, and a Dinner Table ” tracks, in an expansive, leisurely way, the author’s Jewish Russian family — two grandparents, his parents and ...

I forgot to laugh when I read Boris Fishman’s new novel about a family escaping civil war and totalitarianism. Throughout The Unwanted, I read about a mother selling her body in exchange for her ...

"There is an emphasis on sex, drugs and rock 'n roll," Boris Fishman '01 said of "Wild East: Stories from the Last Frontier," which debuted in bookstores on Oct. 15. The collection of short stories, ...

I have a confession to make: I never follow the recipe. Not for Julia Child’s boeuf bourguignon, not for Silver Palate’s chicken Marbella, not for Momofuku’s bo ssam or my grandmother’s lasagna.

It took author Boris Fishman close to six years to figure out “A Savage Feast”. It went through many iterations, as a cookbook, as a pure memoir, and ultimately ending up as a fusion of the two. The ...

Almost three decades after the fall of the Soviet Union, many members of the Russian diaspora—especially those who came of age during the post-Soviet era—are turning a curious and longing eye to the ...

Fishman's family came to the United States from Belarus in 1988; he writes that the hunger, terror and loss of World War II still shapes their... Boris Fishman's ...

“Russians had spoons four hundred years before they had forks,” Boris Fishman told the Forward. “It’s soup country, and this is the mother soup.” Time: 1 hour each Serves: 6–8 Two nearly identical ...

Update RequiredTo play audio, update browser or Flash plugin. Boris Fishman was nine years old in 1988 when his family left Belarus for New York. As Jews in what was ...