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

Copyright

Copyright © 2013 by Anya von Bremzen

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Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.

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Selected recipes originally appeared, in somewhat different form, in Saveur and Food & Wine magazines, Please to the Table by Anya von Bremzen and John Welchman (New York: Workman Publishing Company, 1990), and in The Greatest Dishes! by Anya von Bremzen (New York: William Morrow, 2004).

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Von Bremzen, Anya.

Mastering the art of Soviet cooking : a memoir of food and longing /

Anya von Bremzen.—First edition.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

1. Von Bremzen, Anya. 2. Food writers—United States—Biography. 3. Women cooks—Soviet Union—Biography. 4. Cooking, Russian—History—20th century. 5. Food habits—Soviet Union. 6. Soviet Union—Social life and customs. 7. Russia (Federation)—Social conditions—1991– 8. Russian Americans—Biography. 9. Moscow

(Russia)—Biography. I. Title.

TX649.V66 2013

641.5947—dc23 2013007787

eISBN: 978-0-307-88683-5

Jacket design by Lisa Horton

Jacket illustration by Claudia Pearson

Author photograph by John von Pamer

Photograph on opening page for Part IV courtesy of John Welchman

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