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

A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations “Delicious . . . A banquet of anecdote that brings history to life with intimacy, candor, and glorious color.”--NPR’s Born 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, black-marketeered 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 melancholy--and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era 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 four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR:

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Anya von Bremzen, Anya von Bremzen
• Edition: Crown Publishing Group
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 30.09.2014
• EAN: 9780307886828
• ISBN: 978-0-307-88682-8
• Pages: 368
• Dimensions: 132 mm x 203 mm x 21 mm
• Thème: Broadway Books
• Catégories: Littérature spécialisée > Histoire > Autres; Livres de conseils > Cuisine & boissons > Spécialités par pays; Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Histoire contemporaine (de 1945 à 1989)