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Russian Ice Cream In Winter — Bring It On!

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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 equip­ment were imported and the ice cream sup­ply to all and every­body began. The process was highly reg­u­lated and, indeed, the qual­ity of Soviet ice cream was envi­able. If  in 1932 the total amount of ice­cream pro­duced was about 300 ton, then 10 years later it grew about 270 times — in 1940 there were  82 thou­sand ton of ice cream produced.

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The city of Khabarovsk, 1970.

This num­bers were lost dur­ing the WWII as the fac­to­ries had to cease work — but it quickly recov­ered and by 1950 there was a 20% increase of what was made before.

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Breakfast Time in Paintings by Russian Artists

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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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Still life: Morn­ing. By Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin, 1918. Just like any­where else in the world, eggs are pop­u­lar and the dog is hungry.

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The Book on Tasty and Healthy Foods: Una Dolce Vita, Soviet Style

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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 out to be more than a col­lec­tion of recipes – it is con­sid­ered to be an ency­clopae­dia of the Soviet epoch, an insight into the ordi­nary life of the Soviets.

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The most famous image behind the Russ­ian food, caviar was lit­er­ally impos­si­ble to buy (let alone exor­bi­tantly expensive!)

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In The Grocery

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1959. Typ­i­cal gro­cery depart­ment. There is not too much food-stuff on the shelves. Actu­ally, the shelves are com­pletely empty. There is some­thing behind the sales­man hang­ing on the wall. It is dif­fi­cult to recog­nise what that actu­ally is. Look like decom­posed cow car­casses or some­thing wrapped in the oil-paper. Well, we want to believe that it is just meat.

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In the grocery

Source:  germanych.livejournal.com (in Russian)