Von Bremzen, Anya <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780307886811 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2013007787 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Von Bremzen, Anya
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Food writers<br/>Women cooks----Biography<br/>Cooking, Russian<br/>Food habits----Soviet Union<br/>Russian Americans----Biography
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Soviet Union---Social life and customs<br/>Russia (Federation)---Social conditions---1991-<br/>Moscow, Russia
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>TX649  / .V66 2013 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>641.5947 VON