It ushered in a new interest in Soviet-Russian cooking which has swept up books like Kachka and Salt & Time in the last few years. It’s the most well-worn cookbook I own, and Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking has quickly moved into that same category.
Von Bremzen is a well-known cookbook author across many cuisines, including, notably, Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook. The next book on my Soviet-Jewish Decade Top 10 list is Anya von Bremzen’s culinary memoir, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing, which brings fresh meaning to the food on our tables. It has fascinating facts about different decades of Soviet era from a culinary point of view (for example, the fact that 'kotlyeti' were created in the 1930s to imitate American hamburgers).Bringing meaning to the food on our tables "Part memoir, part Soviet history with a smattering of delicious recipes. Includes a bonus PDF of recipes from the book Wildly inventive and slyly witty, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses. 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.
To bring that past to life, Anya and her mother decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience. Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. 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. It was a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholy-and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. 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.
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 Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen.
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