It's National Cookbook Month, and sometimes a cookbook is more than a set of recipes: it’s a window into a culture. Like a cookbook the USSR published that revealed what the ruling class wanted people to think of their country, even if that wasn’t anywhere near the reality. Plus: today in 1957, a newspaper article proclaimed “it’s raining coins!”
The great Stalinist bake off: Russia's kitchen bible (The Guardian)
It's Raining Coins! (The Stockman's Journal via Newspapers.com)
