![]() Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is a book that stirs the soul as well as the senses. And all of this is bound together by Anya's sardonic wit, passionate nostalgia and piercing observations. Her latest book Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing is being translated into 15 languages. Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking por Anya Von Bremzen, 9780552777476, disponible en Book Depository con envĂo gratis. Her narrative is embedded in a larger historical epic: Lenin's bloody grain requisitioning, World War II starvation, Stalin's table manners, Khrushchev's kitchen debates, Gorbachev's disastrous anti-alcohol policies and the ultimate collapse of the USSR. ![]() In this sweeping, tragicomic memoir, Anya recreates seven decades of the Soviet experience through cooking and food, and reconstructs a moving family history spanning three generations. And yet, the flavour of Soviet kolbasa, like Proust's madeleine, transports her back to that vanished Atlantis known as the USSR. These days, Anya is the doyenne of high-end food writing. In 1974, when Anya was ten, she and her mother fled to the USA, with no winter coats and no right of return. ![]() It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable. Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, Anya von Bremzen grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. ![]()
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