ISBN: 9780143137184 - what's cooking in the kremlin: from rasputin to putin, how russia built an empire with a knife and fork (8 Ergebnisse)

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - A New York Times Editors' Choice"Entertaining . . . A heady mix of propaganda and paranoia . . . [Szablowski writes] sensitively . . . not just about food but also its terrible absence." The New York Times Book Review"Rivetinga delicious odyssey full of history,humor, and jaw-dropping stories. If you want to understand the making of modern Russia, read this book." Daniel Stone, bestselling author of The Food ExplorerA high-spirited, eye-opening, appetite-whetting culinary travel adventure that tells the story of the last hundred years of Russian power through food, by an award-winning Polish journalist who's beenpraised by both Timothy Snyder and Bill BufordIn the gonzo spirit of Anthony Bourdain and Hunter S. Thompson, Witold Szablowski has tracked downand broken bread withpeople whose stories of working in Kremlin kitchens impart a surprising flavor to our understanding of one of the world's superpowers.In revealing what Tsar Nicholas II's and Lenin's favorite meals were, why Stalin's cook taught Gorbachev's cook to sing to his dough, how Stalin had a food tester while he was starving the Ukrainians during the Great Famine, what the recipe was for the first soup flown into outer space, why Brezhnev hated caviar, what was served to the Soviet Union's leaders at the very moment they decided the USSR should cease to exist, and whether Putin's grandfather really did cook for Lenin and Stalin,Szablowski has written a fascinating oral historycomplete with recipes and photosof Russia's evolution fromculinary indifference to decadence, famine to feasts, and of the Kremlin's Olympics-style preoccupation with food as an expression of the country's global standing.Traveling across Stalin's Georgia, the war fronts of Afghanistan, the nuclear wastelands of Chornobyl, and even to a besieged steelworks plant in Mariupoloften with one-of-a-kind access to locales forbidden to foreign eyes, and with a rousing sense of adventure and an inimitable ability to get people to spill the teahe shows that a century after the revolution, Russia still uses food as an instrument of war and feeds its people on propaganda.…

Kartoniert / Broschiert. Zustand: New. Witold Szab&#322owski is an award-winning Polish journalist and the author of How to Feed a Dictator (&ldquoan outright pleasure to read&rdquo &mdashBill Buford) and&nbspthe New York Times Editors&rsquo Choice Dancing Bears.