Russian Colonial Food Quotes

“Marriage was explained to me as a bargain—be good, be quiet, be grateful. Then I saw what it would cost my face.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“Empires rename places; kitchens remember who lived there.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“When everything east of Europe was called ‘Russia,’ entire cultures disappeared behind a single word.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“I learned what it meant to be a Jew the day I was told it would be easier if I wasn’t.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“When everything is for sale, even an era gets renamed.”
— Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“Soviet Russia cannot survive without Baku’s oil.’ ‘Is it possible? Can you drain the Caspian Sea?’ — Stalin’s orders were never questions.”
― Angelika Regossi authir of "Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the Dissolved Communist Empire”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“For people like you, we have psychiatric hospitals.”
“But I am not ill.”
“No problem, we shall find a diagnosis for you,” answered the KGB officer to the dissident.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“History was censored. The kitchen remembered.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“They erased the empire. They couldn’t erase the recipes.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“Behind the Iron Curtain, dinner told the truth.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“Taste the stories the regime couldn’t silence.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“I was taught how to marry in Tajikistan before I was taught how to choose.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“A disabled body does not mean a disabled life—spirit, faith, and creativity still know how to walk.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“The land was enormous, the ambitions were grand, and the control had to be just as big.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“The cruelest discrimination is the kind explained as ‘making life easier’—when who you are must be hidden to survive.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“I walked away from the world and into the monastery, believing that where prayer begins, lies finally lose their voice.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“When Soviet Russia needed Baku’s oil, even the Caspian Sea was expected to cooperate.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“When resources decide survival, power stops asking and starts taking.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“Soviet identity was a paradox: Muslim by tradition, atheist by obligation.”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire

“But I am not ill.’ ‘No problem, we shall find a diagnosis for you.’ — KGB logic in a nutshell.”
― Angelika Regossi, author of "Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the Dissolved Communist Empire”
― Angelika Regossi, Russian Colonial Food: Journey through the dissolved Communist Empire