Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
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A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations
Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow Apartment Where Eighteen Families Shared One Kitchen. She Sang Odes to Lenin, Black-Marketeered Juicy Fruit Gum at School, Watched Her Father Brew Moonshine, And, Like Most Soviet Citizens, Longed for a Mythical West. IT WAS A Life by Turns Absurd, Naively Joyous, and Melancholy-And Ultimatly IntolayBle to Her Anti-Soviet Mother, Larisa. When Anya Was Ten, She and Larisa Fled The Political Repression of Brezhnev -ra Russia, Arriving in Philadelphia with No Winter Coats and No Right of Return.
Now Anya Ocupies Two Parallel Food Universes: One Weres ABOUT FOUR-STAR RESTAURANTS, The OTERE WHEREA of Humble Kolbasa Transports Her Back to Her Scarlet Sacarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelets Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet SCARLET-BLASTS To Bring That Past To Life, Anya and Her Mother Decide to Eat and Cook Their Way Through Evety Decade of the Soviet Experience. Through these Meals, and Through the Tales of Three Generations of Her Family, Anya Tells The Intimate Epic Story of Life in the Ussr. Wildly Inventive and Slyly Witty, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs sous souls and out senses
Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow Apartment Where Eighteen Families Shared One Kitchen. She Sang Odes to Lenin, Black-Marketeered Juicy Fruit Gum at School, Watched Her Father Brew Moonshine, And, Like Most Soviet Citizens, Longed for a Mythical West. IT WAS A Life by Turns Absurd, Naively Joyous, and Melancholy-And Ultimatly IntolayBle to Her Anti-Soviet Mother, Larisa. When Anya Was Ten, She and Larisa Fled The Political Repression of Brezhnev -ra Russia, Arriving in Philadelphia with No Winter Coats and No Right of Return.
Now Anya Ocupies Two Parallel Food Universes: One Weres ABOUT FOUR-STAR RESTAURANTS, The OTERE WHEREA of Humble Kolbasa Transports Her Back to Her Scarlet Sacarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelets Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet Skarelet SCARLET-BLASTS To Bring That Past To Life, Anya and Her Mother Decide to Eat and Cook Their Way Through Evety Decade of the Soviet Experience. Through these Meals, and Through the Tales of Three Generations of Her Family, Anya Tells The Intimate Epic Story of Life in the Ussr. Wildly Inventive and Slyly Witty, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs sous souls and out senses
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Author:Bremzen von Anya
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Cover:Soft
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ISBN:9780307886828
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