“Food, as one academic has noted, defined how Russians endured the present, imagined the future, and connected to their past.” LifeCultureFoodImmigration Book:Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing Source: Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing
“Back at the Davydokovo apartment, we sat mesmerized in front of Grandad's Avantgard brand TV. It was all porn all the time. Porn in three flavors: 1)Tits and asses; 2) gruesome close-ups of dead bodies from war or crimes; 3) Stalin. Wave upon wave of previously unseen documentary footage of the Generalissimo. Of all the porn, number three was the most lurid. The erotics of power.” FoodMemoirFemale WriterRussian Author Book:Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing Source: Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing