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

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

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.