March 16, 2020

Eat This Podcast: Remembering the food of the past, no matter how bad it was

Hello

The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food – published in 1939 – was a complete guide for Soviet citizens. It was both practical and propaganda, with pictures of lavish spreads that no ordinary citizen would ever enjoy. It was, effectively, the only cookbook most Russians knew, and for a few writers acted as a springboard to produce a food-based memoir.

Latest of these is Anna Kharzeeva, a young Russian woman whose blog posts detailing her adventures cooking from The Book – leavened with the stories of her Granny and Granny’s friends – will shortly be published as a book.

Anna shared some of those stories with me.

All the best

Jeremy