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What's cooking in the Kremlin : from Rasputin to Putin, how Russia built an empire with a knife and fork
Uniform Title
Rosja od kuchni. English
Title
What's cooking in the Kremlin : from Rasputin to Putin, how Russia built an empire with a knife and fork / Witold Szabłowski ; translated from the Polish by Antonia Lloyd-Jones.
ISBN
9780143137184
0143137182
9780593511176
Publication
[New York] : Penguin Books, [2023]
Physical Description
xxi, 357 pages : illustrations, maps ; 20 cm
Notes
"First published in Poland as Rosja od kuchni: Jak zbudować imperium nożem, chochlą i widelcem by Grupa Wydawnicza Foksal, Warsaw"--Title page verso.
Summary
"A high-spirited, eye-opening, appetite-whetting culinary travel adventure that tells the story of the last hundred years of Russian power and propaganda through food"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Szablowski, Witold. What's cooking in the kremlin New York : Penguin Books, 2023
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
January 05, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
The last tsar's chef
Lenin's cook
The great famine
A meeting in the mountains: Stalin's eating habits
Beauty and Beria: Stalin's cook and his wife
A baker in besieged Leningrad
Exhumation: cooking in wartime
The feast at Yalta
Gagarin's cook
The Kremlin chef
The cook from the Afghan War
The first return of Viktor Belyaev
The fairy-tale forest: cooking at Chernobyl
The second return of Viktor Belyaev
Wild boar goulash, or the Soviet Union's last supper
The sanatorium cook
Crimean Tatar cuisine
The third return of Viktor Belyaev.
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