Artículos relacionados a Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
Críticas
"Moving and darkly comic" (Niki Segnit The Sunday Times)
"Heartbreakingly poignant and laugh-out-loud funny. This is an important book, a must read!" (Heston Blumenthal)
"Vastly entertaining... A real treat." (Woman & Home)
"By turns funny, tragic and nostalgic, this is a wonderful, fascinating volume, which puts a human face on the grim pages of the history books" (The Lady)
"This poignant memoir is an education in the richness of eastern European cuisine, and the story of Soviet communism, through the lens of family experience." (Observer)
"wry, provocative, genre-busting..." (Wall Street Journal)
"Absorbing... a social history of the Soviet Union cast through the prism of food" (Jewish Chronicle)
"Rollicking and heartrending" (Time)
"You will read few better books about food, family, exile or the Soviet tragedy―and none, I'll bet, which combines all those themes this magically. Funny, angry, ingenious and moving." (AD Miller, author of 'Snowdrops')
"The culinary memoir has lately evolved into a genre of its own... But Anya von Bremzen is a better writer than most of the genre's practitioners, as this delectable book, which tells the story of postrevolutionary Russia through the prism of one family's meals, amply demonstrates... von Bremzen moves artfully between historical longshots...and intimate details. The descriptions of meals are delightful..." (New York Times)
Reseña del editor
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 as well as the senses.
"Sobre este título" puede pertenecer a otra edición de este libro.
- EditorialDoubleday
- Año de publicación2013
- ISBN 10 0857520237
- ISBN 13 9780857520234
- EncuadernaciónTapa dura
- Número de páginas352
Otras ediciones populares con el mismo título
Los mejores resultados en AbeBooks
Imagen de archivo
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
Publicado por
Doubleday, 2013
ISBN 10: 0857520237
ISBN 13: 9780857520234
Antiguo o usado
Tapa dura
Original o primera edición
Librería: Bibliomadness, Worthington, MA, Estados Unidos de America
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. Book is Ex-Library with typical library stamps, stickers and markings. Good condition. All intact. Nº de ref. del artículo: 7563
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles
Imagen de archivo
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
Librería: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Reino Unido
Calificación del vendedor: 5 de 5 estrellas
Paperback. Condición: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Nº de ref. del artículo: GOR006819501
Gastos de envío:
EUR 5,73
De Reino Unido a Estados Unidos de America
Destinos, gastos y plazos de envío
Cantidad disponible: 1 disponibles