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A review by bundy23
Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing by Anya von Bremzen
It'd be unfair to give it a rating as I only gave it an hour or so before I gave up.
I'd never read a "food memoir" before and I doubt I ever will again as it wasn't interesting to me at all and the story was just a rambling mess that jumped all over the place but the biggest failure of all had to be that her bland descriptions of the food she missed so much didn't make me hungry in the slightest.
She also spent a lot of time complaining how food outside of Russian didn't taste authentically Russian. Really? Who would've guessed?
I'd never read a "food memoir" before and I doubt I ever will again as it wasn't interesting to me at all and the story was just a rambling mess that jumped all over the place but the biggest failure of all had to be that her bland descriptions of the food she missed so much didn't make me hungry in the slightest.
She also spent a lot of time complaining how food outside of Russian didn't taste authentically Russian. Really? Who would've guessed?