Book

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

Call Number

  • 641.5947 V945 (CEN)

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Edition

First edition.

Publication Information

New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]

Physical Description

338 pages ; 24 cm

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.

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