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

by Anya von Bremzen

Book Overview

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 All Things Considered

Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307886824
• ISBN13: 9780307886828
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.2" x 8.2"