Mastering the art of Soviet cooking : [a memoir of love and longing]

Von Bremzen, Anya (Author). Gati, Kathleen, 1967- (Added Author).

Summary: 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...

Record details

ISBN: 9780804128346 (electronic audio bk.)
ISBN: 0804128340 (electronic audio bk.)
Physical Description: remote
1 online resource (1 sound file (12 hr., 37 min., 10 sec.)) : digital.
Edition: Unabridged.
Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2013.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Prologue: Poisoned madeleines -- Feasts, famines, histories -- 1910s: 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.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Kathleen Gati.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on hard copy version record.