What's Cooking in the Kremlin is a tale of feast and famine told from the kitchen the
narrative of one of the most complex troubling and fascinating nations on earth. We will
travel through Putin's Russia with acclaimed author Witold Szablowski as he learns the story of
the chef who was shot alongside the Romonovs and the Ukrainian woman who survived the Great
Famine created by Stalin and still weeps with guilt the soldiers on the Eastern front who
roasted snails and made nettle soup as they fought back Hitler's army the woman who cooked for
Yuri Gagarin and the cosmonauts and the man who ran the Kremlin kitchen during the years of
plenty under Brezhnev. We will hear from the women who fed the firefighters at Chernobyl and
the story of the Crimean Tatars who returned to their homeland after decades of exile only to
flee once Russia invaded Crimea again in 2014. In tracking down these remarkable stories and
voices Witold Szablowski has written an account of modern Russia unlike any other - a book
that reminds us of the human stories behind the history.
