What Does A Communist Revolution Taste Like?
In the 1930s, after a disastrous famine killed millions of Soviet citizens, Joseph Stalin made an abrupt turn in his approach to food. He ditched the idea that his countrymen could live on bread alone, and decided they should eat more joyously instead. The result of this campaign was "The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food" — one of the only cookbooks to exist in the Soviet Union.