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

339 pages • first pub 2013 (editions)

nonfiction 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 83%
reflective 72%
emotional 41%
funny 33%
dark 16%
hopeful 16%
challenging 13%
adventurous 11%
inspiring 11%
sad 8%
lighthearted 2%
tense 2%

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slow 35%
fast 2%

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