Never Take Candy from a Stranger

<p>Her mother told her “Never Take Candy from a Stranger.”</p><p>Especially in Moscow. Darra Goldstein was a young Russian graduate student, working on a US trade show in the USSR in the 70’s when a seemingly sympathetic Muscovite offered her a bag of candy as a thank-you. It’s a great story. Darra is now an Emeritus professor of Russian at Williams college and the founding editor of <a href="https://gastronomica.org/">Gastronomica, the Journal of Food Studies</a>. </p><p><i>Photo Courtesy of Darra Goldstein.</i></p><p><i>Let's Talk About Food</i> is powered by <a href="https://simplecast.com/">Simplecast</a>.</p>