Nearing 100 pages with famine and death the ongoing themes I thought perhaps the reviewers had experienced what Daniel Kahneman termed the Peak-End rule: maybe a wonderful resolution to the story overshadowed chapter after chapter of harsh detail. I had been anticipating Julie and Julia and was instead assailed by Stalin and Hitler. The Seige of Leningrad and Hitler’s Hunger Plan are only a couple of examples she draws from in the last century.
It ran a distant second to Russia’s grim history. The title seemed to suggest that Soviet cooking was the main subject matter. Based on the cheery yellow cover with a smiling girl and the reviews of ‘delicious’ and ‘rollicking’ I was expecting a happy romp through Von Bremzen’s foodie recollections.
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