A review by msantolla
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Anya von Bremzen

4.0

I really enjoyed this book. I realized as I read that I knew next to nothing about Soviet Russia, and I loved the journey through history, threaded together by family and food. This book took me forever to read because I kept looking things up on my iPhone while I read because I wanted to learn more. I do think the story and the author's voice really came alive when the story transitioned from being a retelling of her family history to a first person account of her own childhood experience in Russia and her return to Rodina (the motherland). Now I need to decide if I want to try to tackle the Kulebiaka recipe in the back.