Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Anya Von Bremzen

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing

Anya Von Bremzen

350 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography essays food and drink history memoir reflective slow-paced

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A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow a...

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informative 84%
reflective 73%
emotional 38%
funny 34%
dark 23%
hopeful 23%
challenging 19%
adventurous 11%
inspiring 11%
sad 11%
tense 3%

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slow 42%
fast 3%

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