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Mastering the art of soviet cooking is a monumental but deeply human book that reads like a great russian novel, filled with dark humor and nostalgia. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading mastering the art of soviet cooking. It was the book, more than any other, that, combined with her television shows, taught americans how. Mastering the art of french cooking was one of the most influential books in twentiethcentury america. And yet, the flavour of soviet kolbasa, like prousts madeleine, transports her back to that vanished atlantis known as the ussr. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable.
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