In the gonzo spirit of Anthony Bourdain and Hunter S. Thompson, Witold Szabłowski has tracked down-and broken bread with-people whose stories of working in Kremlin kitchens impart a surprising flavor to our understanding of one of the world's superpowers. Traveling across Stalin's Georgia, the war fronts of Afghanistan, the nuclear wastelands of Chornobyl, and even to a besieged steelworks plant in Mariupol-often with one-of-a-kind access to locales forbidden to foreign eyes, and with a rousing sense of adventure and an inimitable ability to get people to spill the tea-he shows that a century after the revolution, Russia still uses food as an instrument of war and feeds its people on propaganda.