{"product_id":"mastering-the-art-of-soviet-cooking-a-memoir-of-food-and-longing","title":"Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eMastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eAnya Von Bremzen\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780307886828\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eCrown\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2014\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eReprint\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e368\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Delicious . . . A banquet of anecdote that brings history to life with intimacy, candor, and glorious color.\"--NPR's \u003ci\u003eAll Things Considered\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBorn 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.\u003cbr\u003eNow Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble \u003ci\u003ekolbasa\u003c\/i\u003e transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. To bring that past to life, Anya and her mother decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience. Through these meals, and through the tales of three generations of her family, Anya tells the intimate yet epic story of life in the USSR. Wildly inventive and slyly witty, \u003ci\u003eMastering the Art of Soviet Cooking\u003c\/i\u003e is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor, Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Crown","offers":[{"title":"Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing | Anya Von Bremzen | Paperback | 9780307886828 | Used: Very Good | Food Writing 1716249 (temp: 1)","offer_id":48754539430040,"sku":"1716249","price":7.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71XO3SMGmfL.jpg?v=1774116077","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/mastering-the-art-of-soviet-cooking-a-memoir-of-food-and-longing","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}