Overview
āRivetingāa delicious odyssey full of history,Ā humor, and jaw-dropping stories. If you want to understand the making of modern Russia, read this book.ā āDaniel Stone, bestselling author of The Food Explorer
A high-spirited, eye-opening, appetite-whetting culinary travel adventure that tells the story of the last hundred years of Russian power through food, by an award-winning Polish journalist whoās beenĀ praised by both Timothy Snyder and Bill Buford
In the gonzo spirit of Anthony Bourdain and Hunter S. Thompson, Witold SzabÅowski has tracked downāand broken bread withāpeople whose stories of working in Kremlin kitchens impart a surprising flavor to our understanding of one of the worldās superpowers.
In revealing what Tsar Nicholas IIās and Leninās favorite meals were, why Stalinās cook taught Gorbachevās cook to sing to his dough, how Stalin had a food tester while he was starving the Ukrainians during the Great Famine, what the recipe was for the first soup flown into outer space, why Brezhnev hated caviar, what was served to the Soviet Unionās leaders at the very moment they decided the USSR should cease to exist, and whether Putinās grandfather really did cook for Lenin and Stalin,Ā SzabÅowski has written a fascinating oral historyācomplete with recipes and photosāof Russiaās evolution fromĀ culinary indifference to decadence, famine to feasts, and of the Kremlinās Olympics-style preoccupation with food as an expression of the countryās global standing.
Traveling across Stalinās Georgia, the war fronts of Afghanistan, the nuclear wastelands of Chornobyl, and even to a besieged steelworks plant in Mariupolāoften with one-of-a-kind access to locales forbidden to foreign eyes, and with a rousing sense of adventure and an inimitable ability to get people to spill the teaāhe shows that a century after the revolution, Russia still uses food as an instrument of war and feeds its people on propaganda.
This book title, What's Cooking in the Kremlin (From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork), ISBN: 9780143137184, by Witold Szablowski, Antonia Lloyd-Jones, published by Penguin Publishing Group (November 7, 2023) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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