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Earlier this month, UNH professor of Russian Ronald LeBlanc delivered the keynote address for "Culture and Cuisine in Russia and Eastern Europe," a conference held at the University of Texas at Austin. His talk was titled "From Russian Vegetarians to Soviet Hamburgers: Tolstoy, Pilnyak, and the Ethics/Politics of Diet." LeBlanc is the author of Slavic Sins of the Flesh: Food, Sex, and Carnal Appetite in Nineteenth-Century Russian Fiction (2009). He has written numerous "gastrocritical" studies on food and eating in the works of such writers as Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Goncharov, Bulgakov, and Olesha.