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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.
Van Pelt Library TX649.A1 S9413 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Szabłowski, Witold, 1980- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Rosja od kuchni. English
- Language:
- English
- Polish
- Subjects (All):
- Cooks--Russia (Federation)--Interviews.
- Cooks.
- Cooking--Political aspects--Russia (Federation).
- Cooking.
- Food habits--Russia (Federation).
- Food habits.
- Russia--History.
- Russia.
- Soviet Union--History.
- Soviet Union.
- Russia (Federation)--History.
- Russia (Federation).
- Cooking, Slavic.
- Genre:
- cookbooks.
- Cookbooks
- History
- Interviews
- Cookbooks.
- Physical Description:
- xxi, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [New York] : Penguin Books, [2023]
- 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.
- 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.
- Notes:
- "First published in Poland as Rosja od kuchni: Jak zbudować imperium nożem, chochlą i widelcem by Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal, Warsaw"--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Samuel Blank Fund.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Szablowski, Witold. What's cooking in the kremlin
- ISBN:
- 9780143137184
- 0143137182
- OCLC:
- 1345216318
- Publisher Number:
- 99995137392
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