In the USSR, the very first ice cream fac­tory was opened in 1932  —  when the Min­is­ter of Food Sup­ply (if trans­lated not too lib­er­ally) Anas­tas Mikoyan vis­ited the United States of Amer­ica and was so impressed with their ice cream, he decided that Rus­sia needed some­thing of the kind. So the ice cream mak­ing tech­nol­ogy and […]

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The cul­ture of wine mak­ing had a long and rich his­tory in the Soviet Union, and its high prof­itabil­ity always ensured an incred­i­ble deal of gov­ern­men­tal sup­port. Due to the cli­mate restric­tions grapes suit­able for wine-making grew in the South­ern areas of the coun­try: Crimea in the Ukraine, the val­ley of Ararat in Arme­nia, as […]

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Here is a twee col­lec­tion of paint­ings by var­i­ous Russ­ian artists pic­tur­ing break­fast time in Rus­sia of dif­fer­ent peri­ods, from 1918 through­out to late 1970s. It pro­vides some insights into an every­day life of sim­ple peo­ple and their meals on the go, before work, very low key and casual.

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The every day Soviet life was far from lux­u­ri­ous, how­ever, the gov­ern­ment had its ways of mak­ing peo­ple believe that life was good and con­stantly get­ting bet­ter. An inter­est­ing means of achiev­ing it was a notable culi­nary book pub­lished in the USSR  –  The Book On Tasty and Healthy Foods. This book, a few inches thick, turned […]

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