Mastering the art of Soviet cooking : a memoir of love and longing Anya von Bremzen

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Von Bremzen, Anya.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Von Bremzen, Anya.

Food writers--United States--Biography.

Food writers.

Women cooks--Soviet Union--Biography.

Women cooks.

Cooking, Russian--History--20th century.

Cooking, Russian.

Food habits--Soviet Union.

Food habits.

Soviet Union--Social life and customs.

Soviet Union.

Russia (Federation)--Social conditions--1991-.

Russia (Federation).

Russian Americans--Biography.

Russian Americans.

Moscow (Russia)--Biography.

Moscow (Russia).

Physical Description:

viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338).

Local Notes:

The Balch Ethnic Studies Collection.

ISBN:

9780307886811

0307886816

9780307886828

0307886824

9780307886835 (ebk.)

0307886832 (ebk.)

OCLC:

828626861

Publisher Number:

40022876668