CCCP Cook Book: True Stories of Soviet Cuisine Hardcover – Illustrated, 21 Sept. 2015

I was in the old Soviet Union in the 70's.the food I eat ranged from school dinnerish, very bland, with big lumps of meat, to really good particularly in Georgia. Good wine and brandy, bread with apples in it, and yogurt and kebabs and salads of leaves I could not identify. This book covers mainly the kind of food you might get in a Moscow hotel. Moscow restaurants always seemed to have a particular smell, I never did find out what it was, a herb of some kind I suspect. The book has recipes and also a bit of background I found it very interesting and may try out a few of the easier ones. No mention of soviet cornflakes but soviet ice cream is mentioned. It was really good in the 70's

Great book, we actually saw this in St Petersburg for £50! So this was a great purchase and I’m so happy to have it amongst my cook books. Will certainly be making a few of these recipes during the winter months especially. Love the unique way this book has been bound. Arrived quickly!

makes great present for any foodie

brilliant. thank you

I've been lucky enough to receive this as a Christmas gift, and am thoroughly enjoying it. I love the illustrations, which create a clever impression of what food must have been like in the USSR. And it's great to have recipes which help explain why some of the foods I've eaten in contemporary Russia taste as they do.

A brilliant combination of recipes; the authors' personal memories; historical anecdotes; and insights into how the Soviet Union went about feeding its people through wartime, and as the great state slowly ground to a halt through the 1970s and 80s. The food doesn't *all* look delicious but I certainly finished it with a craving for cold vodka and salted herring. The only downside is perhaps that for the amount of reading in it it is rather expensive, but then it is beautifully designed and very tactile.