Mastering the art of Soviet cooking : a memoir of food and longing
Von Bremzen, Anya
Mastering the art of Soviet cooking : a memoir of food and longing / Anya von Bremzen - First edition - New York : Crown Publishers , 2013 - 338 p. : illus. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references
Prologue: Poisoned madeleines -- Feasts, famines, histories -- 1910s: Last days of the Czars -- 1920s: Lenin's cake -- Larisa -- 1930s: Thank you, comrade Stalin, for our happy childhood -- 1940s: Of bullets and bread -- 1950s: Tasty and healthy -- Anya -- 1960s: Corn, communism, caviar -- 1970s: Mayonnaise of my homeland -- Returns -- 1980s: Moscow through the shot glass -- 1990s: Broken banquets -- Twenty-first century: Putin on the Ritz -- Mastering the art of Soviet recipes.
With startling beauty and sardonic wit, Anya von Bremzen tells an intimate yet epic story of life in that vanished empire known as the USSR -- a place where every edible morsel was packed with emotional and political meaning. Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen.
9780307886811
2013007787
Von Bremzen, Anya
Food writers
Women cooks----Biography
Cooking, Russian
Food habits----Soviet Union
Russian Americans----Biography
Soviet Union---Social life and customs
Russia (Federation)---Social conditions---1991-
Moscow, Russia
TX649 / .V66 2013
641.5947 VON
Mastering the art of Soviet cooking : a memoir of food and longing / Anya von Bremzen - First edition - New York : Crown Publishers , 2013 - 338 p. : illus. ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references
Prologue: Poisoned madeleines -- Feasts, famines, histories -- 1910s: Last days of the Czars -- 1920s: Lenin's cake -- Larisa -- 1930s: Thank you, comrade Stalin, for our happy childhood -- 1940s: Of bullets and bread -- 1950s: Tasty and healthy -- Anya -- 1960s: Corn, communism, caviar -- 1970s: Mayonnaise of my homeland -- Returns -- 1980s: Moscow through the shot glass -- 1990s: Broken banquets -- Twenty-first century: Putin on the Ritz -- Mastering the art of Soviet recipes.
With startling beauty and sardonic wit, Anya von Bremzen tells an intimate yet epic story of life in that vanished empire known as the USSR -- a place where every edible morsel was packed with emotional and political meaning. Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen.
9780307886811
2013007787
Von Bremzen, Anya
Food writers
Women cooks----Biography
Cooking, Russian
Food habits----Soviet Union
Russian Americans----Biography
Soviet Union---Social life and customs
Russia (Federation)---Social conditions---1991-
Moscow, Russia
TX649 / .V66 2013
641.5947 VON
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