Title:
Mastering the art of Soviet cooking : a memoir of love and longing / Anya von Bremzen.
ISBN:
9780307886811
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]
Physical Description:
viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
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.
Summary:
Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, the author grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable.
Personal Subject:
OCLC Number:
ocn828626861
Availability:
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