Soviet cuisine - Wikipedia
Soviet cuisine, the common cuisine of the Soviet Union, was formed by the integration of the various national cuisines of the Soviet Union, in the course of the formation of the Soviet people. It is characterized by a limited number of ingredients and simplified cooking. This type of cuisine was prevalent in canteens everywhere in the Soviet Union.
What things did people stand in line for in the USSR? (PHOTOS)
In every Soviet food store one could almost always buy butter and oil, tomato or birch or apple juice, dried kissel [fruit juice thickened with starch], canned food, cereals, cookies and pasta....
Rationing in the Soviet Union - Wikipedia
Rationing in the Soviet Union was introduced twice since its creation, both instances during periods of economical hardships. In 1931, the Politburo introduced a unified rationing system for foodstuffs and basic commodities and norms of rationing applied throughout the entire USSR.
Eat Like You’re in the USSR With ‘The Soviet Diet Cookbook’
Jul 20, 2020 · Earlier that decade, famines had devastated the Soviet countryside, and the memory of food shortages was not far off. But these realities appeared nowhere in the Communist Party-issued cookbook...
Why Did the Soviet Union Suffer Chronic Food Shortages?
Mar 22, 2022 · Even into the late 1980s, Soviet citizens could expect to occasionally endure rationing, bread lines and empty supermarket shelves. Here’s why the distribution of food presented such an enduring problem for the Soviet Union.
A look at the old ration system in Russia - Russia Beyond
Oct 16, 2013 · Food items such as sausages, grains and butter were rationed in the USSR/Russia from the mid-1980s for about a decade. Unlike in India today, the Soviet rationing system distributed food to the...
Food in the USSR: Mythology and Reality in Khrushchev’s Russia
Apr 17, 2018 · Food in the USSR under Khrushchev was colored by complex webs of interpersonal relationships, hunting and gathering, and resourceful improvisation to salvage and create meals out of...
Soviet kitchen: a culinary tour of Stalin’s iconic cookbook
Part-propagandist tome, part-cooking manual, the Soviet Book of Tasty and Healthy Food has sold more than eight million copies since it was first published in 1939. But how do the recipes fare today? Maryam Omidi finds out.
Why Russians Are Lining Up for Soviet-Style Canteens
Feb 7, 2019 · After the Bolshevik Revolution, food became a public matter instead of a private one. Preparing meals at home, the new Communist authorities argued, was an inefficient use of resources....
What Was Socialist Food and What Comes Next?
Oct 3, 2016 · Serious studies of food in the Soviet Union and under other socialist regimes are particularly worthy of attention since these socio-economic systems, paradoxically, were best known both for proclaiming an end to hunger and for presiding over chronic shortages if not outright famines.