Anya von Bremzen is a Russian-born American culinary writer who has won the
James Beard Award
The James Beard Foundation Awards are annual awards presented by the James Beard Foundation to recognize chefs, restaurateurs, authors and journalists in the United States. They are scheduled around James Beard's May 5 birthday. The media award ...
three times.
She was born in
Soviet Russia
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russian SFSR or RSFSR ( rus, Российская Советская Федеративная Социалистическая Республика, Rossíyskaya Sovétskaya Federatívnaya Soci ...
, and her works include ''Fiesta'', ''Paladares'', ''The New Spanish Table'', ''The Greatest Dishes: Around the World in 80 Recipes'', ''Terrific Pacific Cookbook'' (co-authored by John Welchman), and ''Please to the Table: The Russian Cookbook'' (coauthored by John Welchman). ''Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing'', published in 2013, is a culinary autobiography and compact Soviet history in one. It has been translated into 19 languages.
See also
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Food writing
Food writing is a genre of writing that focuses on food and includes works by food critics, food journalists, chefs and food historians.
Definition
Food writers regard food as a substance and a cultural phenomenon. John T. Edge, an American foo ...
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Russian cuisine
Russian cuisine is a collection of the different dishes and cooking traditions of the Russian people as well as a list of culinary products popular in Russia, with most names being known since pre-Soviet times, coming from all kinds of social ...
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Soviet cuisine
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 ingredi ...
References
External links
Anya von Bremzen on AmazonAnya von Bremzen on Food & Wine
Anya von Bremzen on TwitterAnya von Bremzen on NPR* https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/32146/anya-von-bremzen
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1963 births
Living people
American food writers
James Beard Foundation Award winners
Soviet emigrants to the United States
21st-century American women writers
21st-century American non-fiction writers
Women food writers