| Description |
xxi, 357 pages ; 19 cm |
| Note |
"First published in Poland as Rosja od kuchni: Jak zbudować imperium nożem, chochlą i widelcem by Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal, Warsaw"--Copyright page. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction -- The last tsar's chef -- Lenin's cook -- The great famine -- A meeting in the mountains: Stalin's eating habits -- Beauty and Beria: Stalin's cook and his wife -- A baker in besieged Leningrad -- Exhumation: cooking in wartime -- The feast at Yalta -- Gagarin's cook -- The Kremlin chef -- The cook from the Afghan War -- The first return of Viktor Belyaev -- The fairy-tale forest: cooking at Chernobyl -- The second return of Viktor Belyaev -- Wild boar goulash, or the Soviet Union's last supper -- The sanatorium cook -- Crimean Tatar cuisine -- The third return of Viktor Belyaev. |
| Summary |
"A high-spirited, eye-opening, appetite-whetting culinary travel adventure that tells the story of the last hundred years of Russian power and propaganda through food"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Cooks -- Russia (Federation) -- Interviews.
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Cooking -- Political aspects -- Russia (Federation)
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Food habits -- Russia (Federation)
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Cooking, Slavic.
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Cooking, Slavic. |
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Cooks. |
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Food habits. |
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Russia -- History.
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Soviet Union -- History.
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Russia (Federation) -- History.
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| Genre |
Cookbooks.
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| Added Author |
Lloyd-Jones, Antonia, translator.
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| Added Title |
Rosja od kuchni. English.
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| ISBN |
9780143137184 (paperback) |
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0143137182 (paperback) |
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