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

Poisoned madeleines

Feasts, Famines, Fables. 1910s: the 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.