Mastering The Art Of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir Of Food And Longing
A James Beard Award-winning writer captures life under the Red socialist banner in this wildly inventive, tragicomic memoir of feasts, famines, and three generations With startling beauty and sardonic wit, Anya von Bremzen tells an intimate yet epic story of life in that vanished empire known as the USSR--a place where every edible morsel was packed with emotional and political meaning.
The bestselling author of A History of the World in 6 Glasses brilliantly charts how foods have transformed human culture through the ages. Throughout history, food has acted as a catalyst of social change, political organization, geopolitical competition, industrial development, military conflict, and economic expansion. An Edible History of Humanity is a pithy, entertaining account of how a series of changes---caused, enabled, or influenced by food---has helped to shape and transform societies around the world.
The story of Native American foodways presented here is an amazing chronicle of both human development over thousands of years and American history after the European invasion. Through cultural evolution, the First Peoples worked out what was edible or could be made edible and what foods could be combined with others, developed unique processing and preparation methods, and learned how to preserve and store foods. An intimate relationship existed between them and their food sources. Dependence on nature for subsistence gave rise to a rich spiritual tradition with rituals and feasts marking planting and harvesting seasons.
Edible Manhattan peels back the curtain on all that's devoured, delivered and even dug in the most delicious city in the world. From sous chefs reinventing global cuisine to LaGuardia's love of hot dogs, from Central Park foraging to Harlem Meatpacking district, Edible is essential reading for any Gotham citizen who loves his town and her food.
Edible Manhattan peels back the curtain on all that's devoured, delivered and even dug in the most delicious city in the world. From sous chefs reinventing global cuisine to LaGuardia's love of hot dogs, from Central Park foraging to Harlem Meatpacking district, Edible is essential reading for any Gotham citizen who loves his town and her food.