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The Soviet Housewife's Guide to Cooking
The book suggested everyone adopt a four course lunch, but much of the population would batch cook for the week with whatever few ingredients they had on hand. Ania told me that any time she left the house, she'd carry a mesh bag crumpled in her pocket. Meanwhile, at home, the book offered salivating images of the kind of food you were supposed to be able to eat. The discrepancy between the abundance on the pages and the absence in the shops makes the book so jarring.