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Mastering the art of Soviet cooking : [a memoir of love and longing] / Anya von Bremzen.
A celebrated food writer captures the flavors of the Soviet experience in a sweeping, tragicomic multi-generational memoir that brilliantly illuminates the history and culture of a vanished empire. Proust had his madeleine; Narnia's Edmund had his Turkish delight. Anya von Bremzen has vobla--rock-hard, salt-cured dried Caspian roach fish. Lovers of vobla risk breaking a tooth or puncturing a gum on the once-popular snack, but for Anya it's transporting...
Record details
- ISBN: 9780804128346 (electronic audio bk.)
- ISBN: 0804128340 (electronic audio bk.)
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 sound file (12 hr., 37 min., 10 sec.)) : digital.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2013.
Content descriptions
| 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. |
| Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Kathleen Gati. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on hard copy version record. |
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