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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Von Bremzen, Anya.     Subjects     Von Bremzen, Anya.     Von Bremzen, Anya.     Food writers -- United States -- Biography.     Women cooks -- Soviet Union -- Biography.     Cooking, Russian -- History -- 20th century.     Food habits -- Soviet Union.     Russian Americans -- Biography.     Soviet Union -- Social life and customs.     Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-     Moscow (Russia) -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Von Bremzen, Anya.       by title:      Mastering the art of...         MARC Display

Mastering the art of Soviet cooking : a memoir of food and longing / Anya von Bremzen. by Von Bremzen, Anya. New York : Crown Publishers, c2013. Subjects Von Bremzen, Anya.   Von Bremzen, Anya.   Food writers -- United States -- Biography.   Women cooks -- Soviet Union -- Biography.   Cooking, Russian -- History -- 20th century.   Food habits -- Soviet Union.   Russian Americans -- Biography.   Soviet Union -- Social life and customs.   Russia (Federation) -- Social conditions -- 1991-   Moscow (Russia) -- Biography. ISBN:  9780307886811 0307886816 Description:  viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Edition:  First edition. Contents:  Prologue: Poisoned madeleines -- Feasts, famines, fables: 1910s : the 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. Requests:  0 Summary:  Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, the author grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii Kai Public Library Adult Nonfiction 641.5947 Von Bremzen Vo Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 641.5947 VonBremzen Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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