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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing (urspr publ 2013; utgåvan 2013)

av Anya Von Bremzen (Författare)

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Biography & Autobiography. Cooking & Food. History. Nonfiction. HTML:

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 taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholyâ??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 kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. To bring that past to life, Anya and her mother decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience. Through these meals, and through the tales of three generations of her family, Anya tells the intimate yet epic story of life in the USSR. Wildly inventive and slyly witty, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses.

Includes a bonus PDF of recipes from the book… (mer)

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Titel:Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
Författare:Anya Von Bremzen (Författare)
Info:Crown Publishing Group (NY) (2013), Edition: First Edition First Printing, 338 pages
Samlingar:Ditt bibliotek
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Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing av Anya Von Bremzen (2013)

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Took me a few chapters to get into, but once I did I found a remarkable family history spanning the end of Stalin to Putin. It’s a book that describes the vastness and scope of the USSR the paranoia, the cynicism, the complexity of a truly fucked up, unfree, memory-holed people. Whew. A rough history that Russians still manage to have a nostalgia for. It’s a sad testament to a sort of Stockholm syndrome and mother that would not ask it for herself or daughter. Wonderful book and one recipe I will probably try.
  BookyMaven | Dec 6, 2023 |
Phenomenal book. I didn't realize it when I decided I wanted to read this book based on reviews, but Ms. von Bremsen is the author of one of my favorite cookbooks, "Please to the Table" covering Russian Jewish cooking. The author talks about the life of her and her family in Russia from right after the Revolution through to when she and her mother finally were allowed to leave the Soviet Union for the U.S. The writing is so good - you get an overview of the history, as well as the situations and mechanics of living a life in the Soviet Union, as well as the life of a Jewish family there. ( )
  schoenbc70 | Sep 2, 2023 |
This book is 50% Russian/Soviet history, 49% personal family history and 1% food. Not the ratio I signed up for.
  blueskygreentrees | Jul 30, 2023 |
Anya Von Bremzen details her life against the history of Russia during the last century. Excellent ( )
  pennykaplan | Sep 4, 2022 |
If you want a Russian cookbook, choose her 'Please to the table...' This is a memoir. Very informative and amusing. ( )
  Martha_Thayer | Jan 13, 2022 |
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Biography & Autobiography. Cooking & Food. History. Nonfiction. HTML:

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 taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholyâ??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 kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. To bring that past to life, Anya and her mother decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience. Through these meals, and through the tales of three generations of her family, Anya tells the intimate yet epic story of life in the USSR. Wildly inventive and slyly witty, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses.

Includes a bonus PDF of recipes from the book

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