Title:
What's cooking in the Kremlin : from Rasputin to Putin, how Russia built an empire with a knife and fork / Witold Szabłowski ; translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
ISBN:
9780143137184
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Publication Information:
[New York] : Penguin Books, [2023]
Physical Description:
xxi, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
General Note:
"First published in Poland as Rosja od kuchni: Jak zbudować imperium nożem, chochlą i widelcem by Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal, Warsaw"--Title page verso.
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- The last tsar's chef -- Lenin's cook -- The great famine -- A meeting in the mountains: Stalin's eating habits -- Beauty and Beria: Stalin's cook and his wife -- A baker in besieged Leningrad -- Exhumation: cooking in wartime -- The feast at Yalta -- Gagarin's cook -- The Kremlin chef -- The cook from the Afghan War -- The first return of Viktor Belyaev -- The fairy-tale forest: cooking at Chernobyl -- The second return of Viktor Belyaev -- Wild boar goulash, or the Soviet Union's last supper -- The sanatorium cook -- Crimean Tatar cuisine -- The third return of Viktor Belyaev.
Summary:
"A high-spirited, eye-opening, appetite-whetting culinary travel adventure that tells the story of the last hundred years of Russian power and propaganda through food"-- Provided by publisher.
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OCLC Number:
on1345216318
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