Title: Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking
Subtitle: A Memoir of Food and Longing
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.
Subjects: Russian Cooking, Social life and customs, Russian Americans, Food habits, Women cooks, Food writers, Social conditions, Biography, History, New York Times reviewed