{"product_id":"mastering-the-art-of-soviet-cooking-a-memoir-of-food-and-longing-paperback","title":"Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAnya Von Bremzen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\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 \u003c\/p\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\u003cb\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor, Publishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnya von Bremzen \u003c\/b\u003eis one of the most accomplished food writers of her generation: \u003cb\u003e \u003c\/b\u003ethe winner of three James Beard awards; a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eTravel + Leisure\u003c\/i\u003e magazine; the author of six acclaimed cookbooks, among them \u003ci\u003eThe New Spanish Table\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Greatest Dishes: Around the World in 80 Recipes\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePlease to the Table: The Russian Cookbook\u003c\/i\u003e (coauthored by John Welchman); and the author of two other works of nonfiction, including the forthcoming \u003ci\u003eNational Dish\u003c\/i\u003e. She also contributes regularly to \u003ci\u003eFood \u0026amp; Wine\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSaveur\u003c\/i\u003e and has written for \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, Departures\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e. She divides her time between New York City and Istanbul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 368\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.83 x 8.24 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 16, 2014\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44830491181158,"sku":"9780307886828","price":23.64,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0599\/7255\/0758\/files\/amV0dzlLeGYxL2tSd25qeWtvdHh5Zz09.webp?v=1772132116","url":"https:\/\/infinitylightwa.com\/products\/mastering-the-art-of-soviet-cooking-a-memoir-of-food-and-longing-paperback","provider":"Infinity Light","version":"1.0","type":"link"}