The author of popular books about food in the United States, Anna von Bremsen, was born in Moscow. At school age she left the USSR with her mother. Her “Secrets of Soviet Cuisine” are only partly devoted to culinary issues. First of all, this is a story: the story of one’s own life, the story of a family’s life, the history of a country, memories of a loved one with a strange love and a hated, but never abandoned past - through the prism of culinary history. How they feasted at the beginning of the 20th century, how they starved during the war, how they dreamed of Another life behind the pages of the “Book of Tasty and Healthy Food,” how they yearned for Soviet food after leaving. Each of the ten decade chapters is accompanied by a time-appropriate recipe. The book contains profanity. 18+