Mastering the art of Soviet cooking : a memoir of food and longing
Title:
Mastering the art of Soviet cooking : a memoir of food and longing
JLCTITLE245:
Anya von Bremzen.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]
Physical Description:
viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9780307886811
Abstract:
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.
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338).
Personal Subject:
Contents:
Prologue: Poisoned madeleines -- Feasts, famines, fables: 1910s : the 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.