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About Jennifer Eremeeva

Jennifer Eremeeva is an American expatriate writer who writes about travel, culture, cuisine and culinary history, Russian history, and Royal History, with bylines in Reuters, Fodor's, USTOA, LitHub, The Moscow Times, and Russian Life.

NBN Episodes hosted by Jennifer:

Gender Studies March 8, 2022

Secrets of the Sprakkar

What the Outstanding Women of Iceland Know about Equality

Eliza Reid

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
In the past decade, adventurous travelers have flocked to the island nation of Iceland to enjoy its many wonders: stunning nature and wildlife, innovative and unique cuisine, a compelling history …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 4, 2022

The Memory of the Second World War in Soviet and Post-Soviet Russia

David L. Hoffmann

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
Over 75 years have passed since the end of World War II, but the collective memory of the conflict remains potently present for the people of the Russian Federation. Professor …
Food August 20, 2021

Amber & Rye: A Baltic food journeyEstonia Latvia Lithuania

A Baltic Food Fourney: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania

Zuza Zak

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
Food writer Zuza Zak’s latest book, Amber & Rye: A Baltic Food Journey: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania (Allen & Unwin, 2021) is a remarkable exploration of one of Europe’s better-kept …
General History July 1, 2021

Queens of Jerusalem

The Women Who Dared to Rule

Katherine Pangonis

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
Any study of the Crusades — the religious wars waged by Latin Catholics to recapture the Holy Land — is primarily an exploration of men and their military deeds, with …
Food June 2, 2021

Will Write for Food

Pursue Your Passion and Bring Home the Dough Writing Recipes, Cookbooks, Blogs, and More

Dianne Jacob

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
Do you have a cookbook in you? Thinking about a memoir with recipes? How about a food blog? Have you ever yearned to be an Instagram Influencer or dreamt of …
Russian and Eurasian Studies April 26, 2021

The Volga

A History of Russia’s Greatest River

Janet Hartley

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
The Volga begins as a small trickle in the Valdai Hills in the north of Russia, and broadens and expands as it heads south, past the storied medieval cities of …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 15, 2021

Journeys through the Russian Empire

The Photographic Legacy of Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky

William Craft Brumfield

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
In his latest authoritative book, Journeys Through the Russian Empire: The Photographic Legacy of Sergei Prokudin-Gorsky (Duke University Press, 2020) Russian scholar, photographer, and chronicler of Russian architecture William …
Russian and Eurasian Studies February 10, 2021

Moscow Monumental

Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin's Capital

Katherine Zubovich

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
In Moscow Monumental: Soviet Skyscrapers and Urban Life in Stalin’s Capital (Princeton University Press, 2021), Professor Katherine Zubovich of the University of Buffalo of the State University of New York …
Western European Studies July 27, 2020

In Search of the Romans

James Renshaw

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
James Renshaw modestly describes his interactive textbook, In Search of the Romans (Bloomsbury, 2019) as an attempt to bring his high school readers to a “base camp on Mount Everest …
British Studies July 7, 2020

Around the Coast in 80 Days

A Guide to Britain’s Best Coastal Towns, Beaches, Cliffs, &amp

Peter Naldrett

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
Peter Naldrett, author of Around the Coast in 80 Days: A Guide to Britain’s Best Coastal Towns, Beaches, Cliffs, & Headlands (Bloomsbury, 2020) begins his enjoyable trip around the British …
General History June 11, 2020

Valkyrie

The Women of the Viking World

Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
Fascination with the Viking Age seems to be at an all-time high, though it has never really gone out of fashion. There is something irresistible about the Vikings, a civilization …
Russian and Eurasian Studies May 27, 2020

Queen Victoria and the Romanovs

60 Years of Mutual Distrust

Coryne Hall

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
The balance of power in nineteenth-century Europe was anchored on one end by the redoubtable Queen Victoria (1819 -1901), the doyenne of sovereigns, and at the opposite end by the …
Russian and Eurasian Studies May 26, 2020

Legacy of Blood

Jews, Pogroms, and Ritual Murder in the Lands of the Soviets

Elissa Bemporad

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
The history of antisemitism in Europe stretches back as far as Ancient Rome, but persecutions of Jews became widespread during the Crusades, beginning in the early 11th century when the …
Food April 14, 2020

Drinking French

The Iconic Cocktails, Apéritifs, and Café Traditions of France, with 160 Recipes

David Lebovitz

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
Few experiences can top sitting in a Parisian cafe and watching the world go by, a glass of something at your elbow. But if you've ever gone inside the cafe …
Eastern European Studies April 1, 2020

The House of Hemp and Butter

A History of Old Riga

Kevin O'Connor

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
Latvia's elegant capital, Riga, is one of Europe's best-kept secrets. Strategically located on the Eastern Baltic coast at the mouth of the River Daugava, Riga was founded in the early …
Food March 27, 2020

Carpathia

Food from the Heart of Romania

Irina Georgescu

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
Romania is a land of crossroads: of empire, of geography, and culture, shaped by centuries of rule by the Greeks, Ottomans, and Hapsburgs. The dramatically different geographic regions of Romania …
Food March 4, 2020

Beyond the North Wind

Russia in Recipes and Lore

Darra Goldstein

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
If you are even remotely interested in Russian cuisine, you probably have an oil-stained, batter-spattered copy of the 1983 classic cookbook, A Taste of Russia, by Darra Goldstein lurking on …
Russian and Eurasian Studies December 24, 2019

Russian Conservatism

Paul Robinson

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
Professor Paul Robinson's new book, Russian Conservatism (Cornell University Press, 2019) is a comprehensive examination of the roots and development of the hardy strain of conservative political thought in Russian …
Russian and Eurasian Studies November 26, 2019

Godless Utopia

Soviet Anti-Religious Propaganda

Roland Elliott Brown

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
In the arc of Soviet history, few government programs were as tenacious as the anti-religious campaign, which systematically set out to debunk organized religion as "the opium of the people." …
Literature November 25, 2019

Like Water and Other Stories

Olga Zilberbourg

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
The phenomenon of the Russian emigre writer is nothing new. Exile seems almost as necessary a commodity as ink to many of Russia's most celebrated writers, including Alexander Herzen, Alexander …
Russian and Eurasian Studies November 18, 2019

Russia's 20th Century

A Journey in 100 Histories

Michael Khodarkovsky

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
Dissecting and digesting the history of the Soviet "experiment" can be a frustrating exercise for academics and a Sisyphean task for laymen; the endeavor demands scrutiny of the facts — …
Historical Fiction September 16, 2019

The Lost Daughter

Gill Paul

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
Grand Duchess Maria Romanova arrives in Ekaterinburg in 1918 with her parents, the former Tsar Nicholas II and his wife, Alexandra. After months of house arrest in the deep interior …
Food August 1, 2019

Seasoned Socialism

Gender &amp

Anastasia Lakhtikova, Angela Brintlinger, and Irina Glushchenko, eds.

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
In their introduction to Seasoned Socialism: Gender & Food in Late Soviet Everyday Life (Indiana University Press, 2019), Anastasia Lakhtikova, Angela Brintlinger, and Irina Glushchenko invite the reader to “imagine …
Historical Fiction July 16, 2019

The Romanov Empress

A Novel of Tsarina Maria Feodorovna

C. W. Gortner

Hosted by Jennifer Eremeeva
101 years have passed since the murder of the Imperial Family of Russia at Yekaterinburg, but their appeal has not diminished. Indeed, interest in the Romanovs is at a historic …