Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing

from akblanchard

Award winning food writer and cookbook author Anya Von Bremzen interprets a tumultuous century of Russian history, from the fall of the Nicholas II to the rise of Putin, through the lens of food. In Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking, she describes the food Russians ate, how they prepared it, an...

from knittingmomof3

I loved this memoir! Possibly because I lived there back when it was the USSR, possibly because it was my major decades ago, or quite possibly because Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Any Von Bremzen is a beautiful memoir with the added bonus of exceptional recipes, which I strongly suggest...

from St.CroixSue

I thoroughly enjoyed this book, which was more memoir than food writing. The author digs back into her ancestry at the start, which feels a bit strained, but when she starts in on her memories the book gathers strength and became very engaging. Most writing out of the USSR, at least what I have r...

from Casey_Marie

"Food defined how Russians endured the present, imagined the future and connected to their past". In this memoir, Anya von Bremzen serves up a repast that is every bit as rich as the Czarist kulebiaka created in her mother's kitchen in Queens. More than just your run of the mill culinary writing,...

from Clara53

What a ride through history... A hundred years of it ingeniously compressed into a normal size volume. I was so overwhelmed by this book that I had to say to myself: wait, gather your thoughts... It is NOT a cookbook, obviously (though it does have nine recipes at the end - all to be tried out by...