Russian Colonial Food
Want to learn about Russia’s “colonies”? Or how the Soviet mafia was born? Or the start of Avant-Garde Art under the communists? The book reveals these and other less-known stories about the history and life in the USSR. The Union or better to say the communist empire, was founded 100 years ago on December 30, 1922, and survived a long 70 years. The author managed to escape this “communist paradise” and shares with you long-kept secrets about her years in the Soviet Union. The book contains 15 stories that include well-researched historical facts about the lives of different people during key times in the USSR, at the time the biggest country that has ever existed. Some territories may come as a surprise, like “Jewish Soviet California” or “Jewish Soviet Palestine”. Other places may be better known to the wider public, but the author reveals astonishing facts and simply explains complicated issues. Written sometimes with humour, sometimes with tears in her eyes, the author’s stories are full of unexpected information and easy to read for both youngsters and adults. The book also includes 31 recipes of authentic, disappearing dishes from each of the USSR’s republics. Some of them are really tasty! But all are made from basic and cheap ingredients and can be quickly prepared for all occasions, whether everyday eating, parties, or cosy gatherings. With this book, you can enjoy both exciting, informative stories and good, unusual cuisine.
Angelika Regossi
Angelika Regossi was a Central and East Europe news reporter for BBC radio (British Broadcasting Corporation) during the transition time from communism to capitalism. In addition, she was freelancing for RFI (Radio France International), DW (Deutsche Welle) and worked as a TV producer for Belgium VRT, German Spiegel, Dutch NOS, USA the Voice of America and others. Regossi travelled extensively through the region during the historical changes and covered the Balkan wars, overthrow of Slobodan Milosevic—the President of ex-Yugoslavia, expansion of NATO and European Union. She also reported from other parts of the world, including referendum for independence in Canada, civil war in Burma, persecutions in Laos, wars in Iraq and Georgia. Angelika Regossi was born on 21 April 1964 in Transcarpathia, the westernmost point of Ukraine. She began writing at an early age amid difficulties with communist authorities, who persecuted her grandfather in labour camp in Siberia. With no communists in her family, she had little chance to discover herself in the autocratic USSR. Therefore, in autumn 1989, she moved to neighbouring Hungary where communism just collapsed. After finishing her reporter’s job for BBC in 2015, Regossi moved to the Netherlands. Angelika Regossi has a university degree and speaks several languages: English, Dutch, Hungarian, Russian, Ukrainian, Slovak and other Slavic languages. Her hobbies are gardening, bridge cards game and, of course, traveling. Regossi is the founder of Slow Food Community in remote Hungarian Tolna region where she owns a boutique hotel, ‘Farmotel Stefania’.
