TY  - BOOK
AU  - Von Bremzen,Anya
TI  - Mastering the art of Soviet cooking: a memoir of love and longing 
SN  - 0307886816
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Crown Publishers
KW  - Von Bremzen, Anya.
KW  - Cooking, Russian
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Food habits
KW  - Soviet Union
KW  - Food writers
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Russian Americans
KW  - Women cooks
KW  - Moscow (Russia)
KW  - Russia (Federation)
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - 1991-
KW  - Social life and customs
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338); Poisoned madeleines -- Feasts, famines, fables. 1910s : The 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
N2  - Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, the author grew up singing odes to Lenin, black-marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable
ER  -