Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing de Bremzen, Anya Von

Crown/Archetype, 2013. Hardcover. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. The dust jacket is missing. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.

Crown/Archetype, 2013. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:A copy that has been read, but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. The spine may show signs of wear. Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include previous owner inscriptions. An ex-library book and may have standard library stamps and/or stickers. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Crown/Archetype. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Crown/Archetype. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

UsedVeryGood. Nice clean copy. The pages are Like New! Pages are clean! Very slight shelf wear to the dust jacket Fast Shipping - Each order powers our free bookstore in Chicago and sending books to Africa!

Crown/Archetype. Used - Very Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects.

With startling beauty and sardonic wit, Anya von Bremzen tells an intimate yet epic story of life in that vanished empire known as the USSR — a place where every edible morsel was packed with emotional and political meaning.
Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeered Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew moonshine, and, like most Soviet citizens, longed for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy — and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return.
Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist… Leer más

Crown, September 2013. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. First Edition/ First Printing, complete number line. A little shelf worn but looks unread. Mostly cream colored front and back of DJ shows a few small smudges.