Anya Bremzen, accomplished food writer, will be signing copies of “Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking” this November in New York and you need to be there!
BOOK SIGNING DETAILS
11/22/14 02:00 PM
Barnes & Noble Booksellers
2289 Broadway
New York, NY 10024
Phone:(212) 362-8835
About the Author
Anya von Bremzen is one of the most accomplished food writers of her generation: the winner of three James Beard awards; a contributing editor at Travel + Leisure magazine; and the author of five acclaimed cookbooks, among them The New Spanish Table, The Greatest Dishes: Around the World in 80 Recipes, and Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook (coauthored by John Welchman). Her latest book is Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: a Memoir of Food and Longing (Crown, September 17, 2013).
About the Book
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, naively joyous, and 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.
