for me, there is nothing complicated in the forge if i took a complex order. i can go to any of the blacksmiths, and he will reveal to me, well, not all the secrets, but he will explain the essence, we’ll get further, i lived in the trans-baikal region, the escape station , this is a timber industry enterprise, and my grandfather worked in a forge, well, i’m with him everywhere , from the first grade i go hunting with him everywhere and in the forest to the forge everywhere, he is not an artist blacksmith, just a collective farm blacksmith. who forges

horses, makes tools, there were gold mines around the lestramkhoz, people also worked on the pendants, those of the old school, of which there were horses, and horses in transbaikalia cannot be driven everywhere by vehicle, in some places something was delivered on horses , they shoed a lot of horses, well, not many, but horses, five or five horses per shift need to be shoed, my grandfather shoed them, i... drove around the village, well, that was at first, and then i tried it myself, he always supported me, misha, let's go ahead, as he said, bear, bear, where is your smile, full of enthusiasm and fire, if there is a smile, that means there will be work, but i even ran away from school in the fifth grade in order to stood at the de dogno, he was working, stabbing, and i was looking at the fire, it’s just that it’s already inside - everyone can become a blacksmith, they should be drawn

to the forge, then there ’s simply no way from here, about the fact that i’ll be a blacksmith in childhood, i didn’t even think about it, because in transbaikalia there are very few blacksmiths, almost none, i thought i would be a welder, i traveled all over the country, studied in chita, went to serve in vladivostok, from vladivostok in the pacific fleet, i passed the polisher, you can say, but i would be in many places for a whole year just at sea, i went to visit my brother here in alexandra, it was in 1913, i came here , i see, there are a lot of blacksmith shops here, everyone is engaged in artistic blood work, i became interested in this, i met a girl here , got a job at the blacksmith shop, and so i stayed, they invited me on the holiday of ivan the terrible, it is held every year at the end of july, midsummer's day, the terrible midsummer's day.

birth, going there empty-handed, no matter how uninteresting, so i made a field forge to show master classes, we forge there with the kids, well, it’s not time, until 10 hours until the sun sets , they don’t let go, work cures melancholy very well, i haven’t been home for 9 years, last summer we went with the whole family, zhabaykalsky region, everyone is there, everyone, parents, old people, everyone, grandfather even before... he’s still alive, thank god, yes, he’s now 90, 90 years old, 90, 92, so he’s still alive, but he doesn’t go to the forge anymore, and well, he’s still in good spirits, if you brought him here to the forge, he of course, i would perk up in spirit, i would remember something, 5 years ago he told me a lot of things, we had such interesting topics in common, ivan, i... it happens here

i’ve already tried it with a hammer, i knocked, my daughter is 5 years old, ivan is 7, he likes it, of course, i would like him to become a military man in the future, but for him to keep the forge as a hobby, because it’s interesting, many of our kings forged and they are there peter the great was a blacksmith, he also forged a lot, so for the general development and for himself, a man should have this. that i can’t stretch it out, oh-oh, spin, the first step was when, after many years of studying, i finally began to transfer my knowledge into creativity, into painting, we asked, so neighbors... pose for us relatives,

this is also a miracle of transformation, a modern person whom you know very well and are accustomed to. everything is dressed in ancient attire, the time machine is before your eyes, this is a man from a painting from some museum, just from old faded photographs, suddenly such an image stepped on you, here he is alive, material, and nothing changes, it turns out, we are the same, here there are these wonderful... elk from the arkhangelsk province, but maybe they are not elk, because a possible error during weaving, for example , they incorrectly counted the number of threads, because they copied each other, copied from older samples, perhaps these were not moose at all, perhaps they were leopards, riders on horses, now i will show you a bird

that is just asking for in the cartoon, she seemed to have escaped from the cartoon union onto an antique towel. here is a wonderful example, here is a pattern known as the tree of life , emperor penguins with a crown on their head, then tell me that hyperbore is a fairy tale, it turns out that our people visited antarctica, when you look at these things, i have a feeling that this was created by representatives of another higher civilization, that...

will, this willpower, firmness of views, it is transferred to the picture, here immersion, this is how life used to be in the 19th century, i learned to rejoice, this is what i convey in any painting, love of life, a life-affirming beginning, yes, i decided to paint a portrait in

russian costume with a child, well, i just had a small child, first daughter, russian costume - is that a lot of red? i completed it, i actually realized that it was some kind of russian madonna, i of course flattered myself a little, i made my cheeks bigger, well, i still painted the image there from myself, the nose is redder, the teeth are whiter, why not no , because these are all the revivals, they are there in these revivalist ones... and we have our own madonnas, big, it’s in the small, when you see how a bud opens, like this, like these, let’s say geese and goslings walk around, then you feel through this big, i have my own world, i made it for myself,

eden, where man also lived in harmony with nature, with animals in the garden, where we have bees, well, something like that. moscow, june 1980. several buses with conscript soldiers are approaching one of the new summer cafes, a huge area with a thousand seats, built specially for the beginning of the 1980 olympics. each of them is given a combat mission: at any cost, in 12

minutes, choose to eat a full three- course meal. people in white coats are vigilantly monitoring the actions of the military and recording them. problems: traffic jams during distribution, lack of cutlery, pushing at the end of the day, why did they start this experiment? the capital of the ussr is almost ready to receive. new stadiums await athletes for the 1980 olympics , an olympic village grew up in the southwest of moscow , almost 3,000 people came, 12,000 athletes took part there, by the summer of 1980 , 140 cafes and snack bars were built in moscow alone, with 5,400 seats, for guests of the olympics there was a special menu has been developed of... 360 dishes, athletes have their own, their own

assortment of dishes, and each sport has its own menu, for weightlifting there are only dishes for athletics are completely different, but how to check whether this complex system can work without problems, so they came up with the idea of ​​​​testing it on the military, the idea justified itself, but the short time that remained before the start of the main sports festival on the planet was all... ... thousands of thanks in different languages, it was a real triumph of soviet catering. children's dairy kitchen. all the young fathers of our country ran and are still running to receive additional milk rations for children under one year old. did you know that the first dairy did kitchens appear in large cities immediately after

the october revolution? the civil service hasn’t ended yet, but the kids have already been put on allowances. but the first in the country of soviets to receive milk rations were not babies at all, but workers of the petrograd putilov plant. and according to some reports, it was precisely so that women, whose number at the plant had increased significantly after the revolution, would drink it themselves and not take it away. for children: you can’t put milk in your pocket, and you can’t stand at the machine for long when you’re hungry. the first world war greatly crippled the russian economy, problems with food began, and already in the spring of 1916 food cards were introduced. maybe that’s why immediately after the decrees on land and peace, the chairman of the council of people’s commissars, vladimi.

there were even charitable canteens, but in the conditions of the oncoming famine they did not save the situation, food prices were rising non-stop, free canteens were organized , a certain minimum of food was distributed to people so that people simply did not die of hunger, canteens were opened in former fine restaurants, already in at the beginning of 1918 they were released in yar 700 lunches daily, in the field at 8.00, only these lunches were not at all the same as before, the main thing in food was the number

of calories, there was no need to think about taste, exquisite culinary masterpieces urgently adapted to new conditions. the soviet government took proper nutrition seriously; already in 1920 , the institute of nutritional physiology began operating in moscow, the main task of which was to develop a healthy diet taking into account a person’s profession and age. it was there that the famous soviet lunch formula was born. first, second and compote, or jelly, jelly and compote, this sweet couple was invariably present at the distribution of any soviet canteen, from kindergarten to there. no matter what dining room you come to, no matter what time , there will always be compote made from dried fruits, because frozen berries became available very, very recently; back in the eighties there were no free frozen berries on sale. and dried fruits have always been around, if you look at soviet cookbooks, you will be

surprised to find jelly in the section of sweet dishes, how come, traditionally russian jelly, it is dense, that is, from time immemorial it has been eaten with spoons, rivers of milk, jelly banks, if done correctly, good jelly with good, say, raspberry sauce, but you can’t drag it away, but traditionally russian... these are cereals jelly, it’s made from oatmeal, what we now call tolakn, most often familiar. century appeared on the menu of soviet canteens as a cheap dish, easy to prepare and meeting all the requirements set by nutritionists for healthy food. in dietary nutrition we cannot use vinegar, soda, etc. further. the temperature regime must be within

certain limits, no less than 14 and no more than 65°, and...

from a modern point of view , quite progressive equipment was used in german cooking boilers, large, voluminous, where it was possible to prepare 250 liters of soup, and also imported vegetable cutters, sinks, dryers, lifts, they believed so much in the future of the project that even new houses began to be built without kitchens, why bother with a primus stove and a kerosene stove if there is a factory-kitchen nearby? in factory kitchens most often they were either very low prices, or served on cards , that is, they paid with cards , food cards, which the employee, employee, employee received at the plant, factory, well, at any enterprise, they were fed not too varied, but according to science

, each lunch contained the required amount of calories, proteins, fats, carbohydrates, factory workers from... factories were given a daily ration of 6,000 calories, and office workers, that is, office workers, only 2,000. 1936 , a year ago bread cards were abolished. no, more fiddling with cards and dalons. here it is a historical day, speaking about the wise factory of our steam. no, no cards, we are a rich, cultural country. on may 22, the first football championship of the ussr starts, grigory alexandrov's film circus is released, people's commissar of the food industry anastas mikayan with his wife and a group of comrades with funds for the purchase of equipment, goes to the united states of america, to adopt the experience of the capitalist food industry in order to put

it at the service of the socialist economy, when stalin...

ice cream factories started working, juices, canned vegetables and meat. at the same time , the production of condensed milk was launched. in america it gained popularity in the middle of the 19th century. the can of soup became iconic thanks to andy warhol. a can of soviet condensed milk did not need such advertising. its blue and white label is already imprinted in the consciousness of anyone born in the ussr. specialists. they claim that this label, invented by the book graphic artist iroid fomina, is quite an independent work of art in the art deco style that was fashionable in the west in the 1930s. by 1939 on the streets of large kiosks with "hamburger" signs appeared in the cities; a hamburger appeared in one of the eateries in new york. mikaen realized that this was

what he needed, and purchased equipment for the production of cutlets. the first hamburgers were these cutlets placed between two pieces of bread, but such an unblogged name hamburger was soon replaced by a more sonorous one.

yes, there is an opinion that in soviet

cutlets there was only one bread, in fact this is not so, because if we put minced meat, a large amount of bread, then the cutlet will not if you form it, it will crack, it will not retain this shape. hamburgers are far from the only thing mikaen brought from america; it was after this trip that the soviet one brought him. no, we have had something better for a long time, but it cannot be destroyed, the plant is already standing, he says: well, of course, then we take it from you and brought the latest technologies to the soviet union

that did not exist even in america. our specialists refined the imported technology; by the eighties, soviet ice cream had become a legend, receiving foreign guests; kremlin chefs regularly included it in the menu famous plambir, foreign tourists coming to the ussr. they asked, first for ice cream, then for an excursion, of course, because soviet ice cream was exported to the west in extremely limited quantities and served as an elite dessert in expensive restaurants. what's the secret? exclusively in natural ingredients. that is why the shelf life of that same ice cream was no more than a week, however, it did not stay on the shelves longer. and here is the recipe for the famous doctor's sausage -

the composition, precisely the gasted technology, recipe, 25% of the highest grade beef varieties, 25% lean pork, as well as 45% fat pork, 3% melange and 2% milk. the technologists faced a non-trivial task: to come up with an easy- to-use dietary product specifically for patients with poor health as a result of the civil war and tsarist despotism. they did it, the sausage product is balanced in its amino acid composition, due to the fact that it contains 20%, 25%.