![]() Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is a book that stirs the soul as well as the senses. ![]() And all of this is bound together by Anya’s sardonic wit passionate nostalgia and piercing observations. ANYA VON BREMZEN is one of the most accomplished food writers of her generation: the winner of three James Beard awards a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure magazi and the author of. Her narrative is embedded in a larger historical epic: Lenin’s bloody grain requisitioning World War II starvation Stalin’s table manners Khrushchev’s kitchen debates Gorbachev’s disastrous anti-alcohol policies and the ultimate collapse of the USSR. ![]() In this sweeping tragicomic memoir Anya recreates seven decades of the Soviet experience through cooking and food and reconstructs a moving family history spanning three generations. And yet the flavour of Soviet kolbasa like Proust’s madeleine transports her back to that vanished Atlantis known as the USSR. These days Anya is the doyenne of high-end food writing. In 1974 when Anya was ten she and her mother fled to the USA with no winter coats and no right of return. It was a life by turns absurd drab naively joyous melancholy and finally intolerable. ![]()
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