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

Von Bremzen, Anya. (Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307886811
  • Physical Description: viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition
  • Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338).
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject:
Von Bremzen, Anya.
Cooking, Russian > History > 20th century.
Food habits > Soviet Union.
Food writers > United States > Biography.
Russian Americans > Biography.
Women cooks > Soviet Union > Biography.
Moscow (Russia) > Biography.
Russia (Federation) > Social conditions > 1991-
Soviet Union > Social life and customs.
Genre:
Autobiographies.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at Onslow County Public Library.

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