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Mastering The Art Of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir Of Food And Longing
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A James Beard Awardwinning Writer Captures Life Under The Red Socialist Banner In This Wildly Inventive, Tragicomic Memoir Of Feasts, Famines, And Three Generationsdelicious . . . A Banquet Of Anecdote That Brings History To Life With Intimacy, Candor, And Glorious Color.Nprs All Things Consideredborn 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, Blackmarketeered 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 Melancholyand Ultimately Intolerable To Her Antisoviet Mother, Larisa. When Anya Was Ten, She And Larisa Fled The Political Repression Of Brezhnevera 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 Fourstar Restaurants, The Other Where A Taste Of Humble Kolbasa Transports Her Back To Her Scarletblazed 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.One Of The Best Books Of The Year: The Christian Science Monitor, Publishers Weekly
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