Mastering the art of Soviet cooking : a memoir of love and longing / Anya von Bremzen.
- Von Bremzen, Anya.
- Date:
- 2013
- Books
About this work
Description
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.
Publication/Creation
London : Doubleday, 2013.
Physical description
viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contributors
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338)
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Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineDFXN.31.AA9Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780857520241
- 0857520245