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The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food

99% Invisible

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The Cook Book of the Soviet Union

Lokte p viloshisi visa es la kagatisisi. Wants appeareda one time. I had no idea how to cook them, so i crawled into the book to fi how to cooked them. But i go in moscow babushka had been a librarian. She'd amassed an enormous quantity of books. When she finally fled the soviet union as a jewish refugee, she had to leave boxes of those books behind. And yet here's a book she chose to bring with her, one that she rarely ever used. The book was at the vanguard of a radical soviet food experiment - and it transformed russian quisine to day.

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