Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
Subtitle: A Memoir of Food and Longing
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780307886811
Description: Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, the author 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.