Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Anya Von Bremzen - Hardcover 2013 Edition | Russian Cuisine History, Cultural Cookbook, Gift for Foodies & History Lovers | Perfect for Book Clubs and Culinary Enthusiasts

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A celebrated food writer captures the flavors of the Soviet experience in a sweeping, tragicomic, multi-generational memoir that brilliantly illuminates the history and culture of a vanished empire. Proust had his madeleine; Narnia's Edmund had his Turkish delight. Anya von Bremzen has vobla-rock-hard, salt-cured dried Caspian roach fish. Lovers of vobla risk breaking a tooth or puncturing a gum on the once-popular snack, but for Anya, it's transporting. Like kotleti (Soviet burgers) or the festive Salat Olivier, it summons up the complex, bittersweet flavors of life in "that vanished Atlantis" called the USSR.....