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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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--?With startling beauty and sardonic wit, Anya von Bremzen tells an intimate yet epic story of life in that vanished empire known as the USSR?a place where every edible morsel was packed with emotional and political meaning.???? 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 taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy?and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return.???? Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble --???? Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking From the Hardcover edition. |
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Von Bremzen, Anya.
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Von Bremzen, Anya. |
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Since 1900 |
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Food writers -- United States -- Biography.
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Women cooks -- Soviet Union -- Biography.
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Cooking, Russian -- History -- 20th century.
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Food habits -- Soviet Union.
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Russian Americans -- Biography.
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Cooking, Russian. |
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Food habits. |
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Food writers. |
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Manners and customs. |
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Russian Americans. |
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Social conditions. |
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Women cooks. |
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Mat -- historia -- Sovjetunionen. |
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Mat -- sociala aspekter -- Sovjetunionen. |
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Soviet Union -- Social life and customs.
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Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-
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Moscow (Russia) -- Biography.
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Russia (Federation) |
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Russia (Federation) -- Moscow. |
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Soviet Union. |
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United States. |
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Electronic books. |
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Biography.
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History.
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Boundless (Digital media service)
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9780307886835 : $48.00 |
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0307886832 : $48.00 |
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