Physical Description:print viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Edition:First edition.
Publisher:New York :Crown Publishers,[2013]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 333-338).
Formatted Contents Note:
Prologue: Poisoned madeleines -- Feasts, famines, histories -- 1910s: Last days of the Czars -- 1920s: Lenin's cake -- Larisa -- 1930s: Thank you, comrade Stalin, for our happy childhood -- 1940s: Of bullets and bread -- 1950s: Tasty and healthy -- Anya -- 1960s: Corn, communism, caviar -- 1970s: Mayonnaise of my homeland -- Returns -- 1980s: Moscow through the shot glass -- 1990s: Broken banquets -- Twenty-first century: Putin on the Ritz -- Mastering the art of Soviet recipes.
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