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084    Lz Von Bremzen, Anya 
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092 0  641.59 Von Bremzen|bengelska 
100 1  Von Bremzen, Anya 
245 10 Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking /|cVon Bremzen, Anya 
264    London :|bDoubleday,|c2013 
300    viii, 338 p. :|bill., ports. ;|c25 cm 
504    Includes bibliographical references 
520    Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen
       families shared one kitchen, Anya von Bremzen 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. In 1974, when Anya 
       was ten, she and her mother fled to the USA, with no 
       winter coats and no right of return. These days, Anya is 
       the doyenne of high-end food writing. And yet, the flavour
       of Soviet kolbasa, like Proust's madeleine, transports her
       back to that vanished Atlantis known as the USSR . In this
       sweeping, tragicomic memoir, Anya recreates seven decades 
       of the Soviet experience through cooking and food, and 
       reconstructs a moving family history spanning three 
       generations. Her narrative is embedded in a larger 
       historical epic: Lenin's bloody grain requisitioning, 
       World War II starvation, Stalin's table manners, 
       Khrushchev's kitchen debates, Gorbachev's disastrous anti-
       alcohol policies and the ultimate collapse of the USSR. 
       And all of this is bound together by Anya's sardonic wit, 
       passionate nostalgia and piercing observations. Mastering 
       the Art of Soviet Cooking is a book that stirs the soul 
       and the senses 
600 10 Von Bremzen, Anya 
650  0 Cooking, Russian|xHistory|y20th century 
650  0 Food writers|zUnited States|vBiography 
650  0 Women cooks|zSoviet Union|vBiography 
650  0 Food habits|zSoviet Union 
650  0 Russian Americans|vBiography 
650  7 Matlagning 
651  0 Soviet Union|xSocial life and customs 
651  0 Russia (Federation)|xSocial conditions|y1991- 
651  0 Moscow (Russia)|vBiography 
655  7 Biografi|2saogf 
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