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Mastering the art of Soviet cooking : a memoir of love and longing / Anya von Bremzen.
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.
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- ISBN: 9780307886811 : HRD
- ISBN: 0307886816 : HRD
- Physical Description: viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Crown Publishers, [2013]
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| McGregor Public Library | 641.5947 V (Text) | 32050007102319 | Nonfiction | Available | - |