![]() ![]() My husband and his parents left for Chicago in 1988 when he was 28. She and her mother escaped for Philadelphia in 1974 when von Bremzen was 11. Von Bremzen left the Soviet Union much earlier than The Russian did. ![]() If von Bremzen’s writing style is any indication, they also share a similar dark sense of humor. They nonetheless shared many similar experiences, from being members of secular Jewish families to waiting on the ubiquitous Soviet era food lines. Acclaimed food writer von Bremzen and The Russian are rough contemporaries, born four years apart, although she hails from Moscow and he from its rival city, the former Leningrad. Instead, it morphed into one of those gifts that was more for me than him, part of my ongoing attempt to understand his complicated love/mostly hate relationship with his former homeland. I bought Anya von Bremzen’s Mastering The Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing about a year ago as a birthday present for my husband, The Russian, but never gave it to him. ![]()
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