Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
Autor Anya Von Bremzenen CD-Audio – 31 dec 2034
Simțim mirosul greu de varză călită și auzim zgomotul tacâmurilor lovind farfurii de tablă în bucătăria comunală din Moscova unde optsprezece familii își disputau spațiul și demnitatea. Remarcăm cum Anya Von Bremzen transformă salamul sovietic (kolbasa) într-o „madeleină” a lui Proust, un declanșator senzorial care deschide porțile unui „Atlantis” dispărut: URSS. Această perspectivă intimă ne permite să vedem istoria nu prin cifre, ci prin gusturi, de la guma de mestecat Juicy Fruit vândută la negru în școală, până la mesele somptuoase și crude ale lui Stalin. Subliniem modul în care autoarea împletește tragedia cu un umor sardonic, oferind o cronică de familie pe parcursul a trei generații. Nu este doar o carte despre mâncare, ci o explorare a modului în care ideologia politică a dictat ce se afla în farfuria cetățenilor, de la rechizițiile brutale de cereale ale lui Lenin până la „dezbaterea din bucătărie” a lui Hrușciov. În aceeași familie cu Savage Feast de Boris Fishman, volumul adaugă o dimensiune istorică mult mai vastă, transformând rețetele și amintirile culinare într-un instrument de analiză a colapsului unui imperiu. De asemenea, dacă The Hunger Book de Agata Izabela Brewer se concentrează pe trauma deprivării în Polonia comunistă, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking balansează între nostalgia caldă și observația tăioasă asupra absurdului cotidian. Structura este una de epopee istorică, dar tonul rămâne personal, aproape confesiv. Deși autoarea a devenit o voce respectată în jurnalismul gastronomic occidental, ea revine constant la acea fetiță de zece ani care a părăsit Uniunea Sovietică în 1974 fără drept de întoarcere. Rezultatul este un volum de memorii care ne hrănește curiozitatea pentru o lume dispărută, dar ale cărei ecouri se simt încă în gustul fiecărei amintiri.
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ISBN-10: 0804128316
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:Completă
Editura: Random House Audio Publishing Group
Colecția Random House Audio
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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 past. To bring that past to life, in its full flavor, both bitter and sweet, Anya and Larisa, embark on a journey unlike any other: they decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience—turning Larisa’s kitchen into a "time machine and an incubator of memories.” Together, mother and daughter re-create meals both modest and sumptuous, featuring a decadent fish pie from the pages of Chekhov, chanakhi (Stalin’s favorite Georgian stew), blini, and more.
Through these meals, Anya tells the gripping story of three Soviet generations—
masterfully capturing the strange mix of idealism, cynicism, longing, and terror that defined Soviet life. We meet her grandfather Naum, a glamorous intelligence chief under Stalin, and her grandmother Liza, who made a perilous odyssey to icy, blockaded Leningrad to find Naum during World War II. We meet Anya’s hard-drinking, sarcastic father, Sergei, who cruelly abandons his family shortly after Anya is born; and we are captivated by Larisa, the romantic dreamer who grew up dreading the black public loudspeakers trumpeting the glories of the Five-Year Plan. Their stories unfold against the vast panorama of Soviet history: Lenin’s bloody grain requisitioning, World War II hunger and survival, Stalin’s table manners, Khrushchev’s kitchen debates, Gorbachev’s disastrous anti-alcohol policies. And, ultimately, the collapse of the USSR. And all of it is bound together by Anya’s passionate nostalgia, sly humor, and piercing observations.
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses.
From the Hardcover edition.
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Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, Anya von Bremzen 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. In 1974, when Anya was ten, she and her mother fled to the USA, with no winter coats and no right of return. These days, Anya is the doyenne of high-end food writing. And yet, the flavour of Soviet kolbasa, like Proust's madeleine, transports her back to that vanished Atlantis known as the USSR . In this sweeping, tragicomic memoir, Anya recreates seven decades of the Soviet experience through cooking and food, and reconstructs a moving family history spanning three generations. Her narrative is embedded in a larger historical epic: Lenin's bloody grain requisitioning, World War II starvation, Stalin's table manners, Khrushchev's kitchen debates, Gorbachev's disastrous anti-alcohol policies and the ultimate collapse of the USSR. And all of this is bound together by Anya's sardonic wit, passionate nostalgia and piercing observations. Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is a book that stirs the soul as well as the senses.