Changes in agriculture, trade, food production and consumption after the collapse of the Soviet Union led to a large reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, a new study has found. From 1991 to 2011, ...

Anya Von Bremzen grew up in the Soviet Union and her book, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is a history of the Soviet Union through the experience of her own family and, in particular, her mother.

BOOK: The Soviet Union, with its periodic famines and chronic food shortages, was not exactly a culinary paradise, but Anya von Bremzen nevertheless recounts the pleasures of the kitchen in her new ...

Author Anya Von Bremzen's new memoir, Mastering The Art of Soviet Cooking, is a tragic-comic history of a family and a nation as seen through the... Kitchen Time Machine: A Culinary Romp Through ...

Before the Soviet period, "Russian food had color," says Vladimir Mukhin of Moscow's world-famous White Rabbit restaurant. He aims to honor those... The Russian Chef Who Is Bringing Back His ...

It took author Boris Fishman close to six years to figure out “A Savage Feast”. It went through many iterations, as a cookbook, as a pure memoir, and ultimately ending up as a fusion of the two. The ...

Imagine a book that’s part scrawled kitchen index card, part political introduction to socialism and part family saga, all doused with a healthy dose of mayonnaise — what you get is Anya Von Bremzen’s ...

The Passover food, which used to be unavailable under communism, was for many the only link to their people’s faith and culture. (JTA) — When it comes to consuming matzah, the Jews of the former ...

Is it practical to retain perishable material and what long-range obligations are required? To find the answers, a collaborative efforts was required, allowing for preservation of our collection of ...

The French novelist Marcel Proust immortalized the connection between food and memory when the narrator of his novel Remembrances of Things Past bit into a madeleine and was transported to thoughts of ...