What's Cooking in the Kremlin
A Modern History of Russia Through the Kitchen Door
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What's Cooking in the Kremlin
Narrated by:
Rupert Bush
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Narrated by:
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Rupert Bush
What's Cooking in the Kremlin is a tale of feast and famine told from the kitchen, the narrative of one of the most complex, troubling and fascinating nations on earth.
We will travel through Putin's Russia with acclaimed author Witold Szablowski as he learns the story of the chef who was shot alongside the Romonovs, and the Ukrainian woman who survived the Great Famine created by Stalin and still weeps with guilt; the soldiers on the Eastern front who roasted snails and made nettle soup as they fought back Hitler's army; the woman who cooked for Yuri Gagarin and the cosmonauts, and the man who ran the Kremlin kitchen during the years of plenty under Brezhnev. We will hear from the women who fed the firefighters at Chernobyl, and the story of the Crimean Tatars, who returned to their homeland after decades of exile, only to flee once Russia invaded Crimea again, in 2014.
In tracking down these remarkable stories and voices, Witold Szablowski has produced an account of modern Russia unlike any other - an audiobook that reminds us of the human stories behind the history.©2023 Witold Szabłowski (P)2023 W.F.Howes Ltd
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The book tells the very human stories of the cooks who cooked for, or on order of the Kremlin, against the backdrop of history. It tells personal stories, told to the author by the people themselves, and some of them are heartbreaking, especially those of the Chernobyl cooks.
It's definitely a book to revisit as there's a lot to digest and also it's an informative and interesting listen.
Very good listen.
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