FREE/BARGAIN — Cookbooks

[Cinisajoy]

I saw that one but decided on Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking.
https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Art...okbubemailc-20
Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeered Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew moonshine, and, like most Soviet citizens, longed for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholy—and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return.
Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. To bring that past to life, Anya and her mother decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience. Through these meals, and through the tales of three generations of her family, Anya tells the intimate yet epic story of life in the USSR. Wildly inventive and slyly witty, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses.

It is also $1.99 marked down from $15. Published by Random House.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

I saw that one but decided on Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking.
https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Art...okbubemailc-20
Born in 1963, in an era of bread shortages, Anya grew up in a communal Moscow apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen. She sang odes to Lenin, black-marketeered Juicy Fruit gum at school, watched her father brew moonshine, and, like most Soviet citizens, longed for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, naively joyous, and melancholy—and ultimately intolerable to her anti-Soviet mother, Larisa. When Anya was ten, she and Larisa fled the political repression of Brezhnev-era Russia, arriving in Philadelphia with no winter coats and no right of return.
Now Anya occupies two parallel food universes: one where she writes about four-star restaurants, the other where a taste of humble kolbasa transports her back to her scarlet-blazed socialist past. To bring that past to life, Anya and her mother decide to eat and cook their way through every decade of the Soviet experience. Through these meals, and through the tales of three generations of her family, Anya tells the intimate yet epic story of life in the USSR. Wildly inventive and slyly witty, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking is that rare book that stirs our souls and our senses.

It is also $1.99 marked down from $15. Published by Random House.

I saw that one, too, but decided not to post it.

Being the youngster that you are, you may not realize that people in the U.S. during Soviet times food never . . . how shall I say this without using vulgarity . . . had high regard for Soviet food. Some dishes from the Eastern Bloc countries were highly regarded.

A quick story about Soviet food. I took a course one time in Group Tour management. This was a few years after the fall of the Soviet Union. The professor led trips himself, to a wide variety of places in the world. Well, one of those was the Soviet Union and he greatly vilified the food there. I don't remember much of the details that he gave, but one that I do recall, and will never forget, was about the group stopping at a certain place to eat. Seems like it was in a fairly rural area. They served chicken foot soup. He described it graphically. There was literally a cooked (I assume) chicken foot in each bowl of soup! I know that things have improved markedly since the old Soviet days, but because of his experience, I would be highly unlikely ever to buy a cookbook for Soviet food. I doubt that I would even browse through one.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I saw that one, too, but decided not to post it.

Being the youngster that you are, you may not realize that people in the U.S. during Soviet times food never . . . how shall I say this without using vulgarity . . . had high regard for Soviet food. Some dishes from the Eastern Bloc countries were highly regarded.

A quick story about Soviet food. I took a course one time in Group Tour management. This was a few years after the fall of the Soviet Union. The professor led trips himself, to a wide variety of places in the world. Well, one of those was the Soviet Union and he greatly vilified the food there. I don't remember much of the details that he gave, but one that I do recall, and will never forget, was about the group stopping at a certain place to eat. Seems like it was in a fairly rural area. They served chicken foot soup. He described it graphically. There was literally a cooked (I assume) chicken foot in each bowl of soup! I know that things have improved markedly since the old Soviet days, but because of his experience, I would be highly unlikely ever to buy a cookbook for Soviet food. I doubt that I would even browse through one.

How young do you think I am?

I posted this one for the cookbook collectors that may or may not have a Soviet Era cookbook.
Note: I am old enough to remember the Hostage Crisis.

[Froide]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I saw that one, too, but decided not to post it.

Being the youngster that you are, you may not realize that people in the U.S. during Soviet times food never . . . how shall I say this without using vulgarity . . . had high regard for Soviet food. Some dishes from the Eastern Bloc countries were highly regarded.

A quick story about Soviet food. I took a course one time in Group Tour management. This was a few years after the fall of the Soviet Union. The professor led trips himself, to a wide variety of places in the world. Well, one of those was the Soviet Union and he greatly vilified the food there. I don't remember much of the details that he gave, but one that I do recall, and will never forget, was about the group stopping at a certain place to eat. Seems like it was in a fairly rural area. They served chicken foot soup. He described it graphically. There was literally a cooked (I assume) chicken foot in each bowl of soup! I know that things have improved markedly since the old Soviet days, but because of his experience, I would be highly unlikely ever to buy a cookbook for Soviet food. I doubt that I would even browse through one.

Reactions, some admittedly nerdly:

• At least people got what they expected, unlike stone soup!
• Chicken feet dishes are delicacies in Russia and some other regions, e.g., see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_feet
• Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in Your Soup, by Tomie dePaola, is a children's picture book with recipes
• Chicken feet is the subject of numerous works of fiction, folklore, memoirs, and travelogues, in addition to cookbooks

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by Froide

Reactions, some admittedly nerdly:

• At least people got what they expected, unlike stone soup!
• Chicken feet dishes are delicacies in Russia and some other regions, e.g., see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_feet
• Watch Out for the Chicken Feet in Your Soup, by Tomie dePaola, is a children's picture book with recipes
• Chicken feet is the subject of numerous works of fiction, folklore, memoirs, and travelogues, in addition to cookbooks

Also in South Carolina according to Andrew Zimmern.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

How young do you think I am?

I posted this one for the cookbook collectors that may or may not have a Soviet Era cookbook.
Note: I am old enough to remember the Hostage Crisis.

I would have thought that you were between 35 and 45. I don't know what I based that on, specifically. That would make you a youngster to me, because I am . . . well, nevermind how old I am. ha Hope you weren't offended by me calling you a "youngster"--I was just kidding, of course.

Is there a recipe for chicken foot soup in your new Soviet cookbook, or have you browsed through it enough to know? If the book is marketed to the West--U.S., England, et al., I'm betting that there isn't. It would just be too revolting to potential purchasers of the book.

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by GtrsRGr8

I would have thought that you were between 35 and 45. I don't know what I based that on, specifically. That would make you a youngster to me, because I am . . . well, nevermind how old I am. ha Hope you weren't offended by me calling you a "youngster"--I was just kidding, of course.

Is there a recipe for chicken foot soup in your new Soviet cookbook, or have you browsed through it enough to know? If the book is marketed to the West--U.S., England, et al., I'm betting that there isn't. It would just be too revolting to potential purchasers of the book.

No, I wasn't offended. Heck I wanted to hug you.
I am a quarter century twice.
Brb with an answer to your question.

No and I will be returning the book as it is not a cookbook with memories, it is a memoir with about 10 recipes.

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

No, I wasn't offended. Heck I wanted to hug you.
I am a quarter century twice.
Brb with an answer to your question.

No and I will be returning the book as it is not a cookbook with memories, it is a memoir with about 10 recipes.

You "carry yourself" in the forums as a younger person.

The "cookbook" now has more appeal to me. I wouldn't care for chicken foot and other, similarly gross, recipes, but cultural kinds of things like memories of life in the U.S.S.R. interest me.

[murg]

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

Also in South Carolina according to Andrew Zimmern.

Ah, yes, The People's Republic of South Carolina...

[GA Russell]

Man Smoothies - free
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Smoothies...dp/B018RZCYZI/

[Cinisajoy]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Man Smoothies - free
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Smoothies...dp/B018RZCYZI/

That just sounds so wrong.

[Apache]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Man Smoothies - free
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Smoothies...dp/B018RZCYZI/

Originally Posted by Cinisajoy

That just sounds so wrong.

Unless you are a cannibal.
Apache

[GA Russell]

The Nut Milk Bible - free
https://www.amazon.com/Nut-Milk-Bibl...dp/B00RBQ54XY/

[GtrsRGr8]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

The Nut Milk Bible - free
https://www.amazon.com/Nut-Milk-Bibl...dp/B00RBQ54XY/

I recommend against milk from almonds. I've tasted it, tried to use it (not in cooking, however) and I just don't like the taste.

Somehow, however, Gevalia makes an excellent iced coffee which uses almond milk extract. I don't taste the almond milk. I've tried to copycat it (to try to save $$$$), without success, so far, however.

[TrevorViking]

Originally Posted by GA Russell

Man Smoothies - free
https://www.amazon.com/Man-Smoothies...dp/B018RZCYZI/

Originally Posted by GA Russell

The Nut Milk Bible - free
https://www.amazon.com/Nut-Milk-Bibl...dp/B00RBQ54XY/