Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
Anya Von Bremzen,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Crown Publishing Group on 09-17-2013
Anya Von Bremzen,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Crown Publishing Group on 09-17-2013
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Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780307886811 (0307886816)
ASIN: 9780307886811
Publish date: 17-09-2013
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Food And Drink,
Food,
Russia,
Biography Memoir,
Cookbooks,
Cooking
For the past two weeks, I’ve been having Kathleen Gati read me to sleep with Anya von Bremzen’s Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing. Von Bremzen was born in Moscow in the early 1960s and left in 1974 with her mother, emigrating to New York. Since the day she left, von B...
Interesting at first, but it wasn't quite the food memoir I was expecting from the descriptions. It was nice to have the historical context, but this often overtook the more interesting stuff about food and the author's experiences and family, and I felt like I had to slog through a lot of dull his...
Part memoir and part family history, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is a fascinating, affectionate, irreverent, and for me surprising inside account of everyday life during successive eras of the Soviet Union, from revolution through Stalin and Khrushchev to glasnost, paying particular attenti...
9 years ago
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