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Dinners with Stalin: A Culinary History of the Soviet Empire

A talk with Erik Scott about food in the USSR. From the Jordan Center: He looks at how the Soviet effort to promote a diet representative of the state’s internal diversity created opportunities for non-Russian culinary specialists and imbued Soviet material culture with complementary and conflicting national meanings. Focusing on the celebrated food and drink of Joseph Stalin’s homeland, he…