Anya von Bremzen is a 3 time James Beard Award winner and culinary author. She emigrated to the U.S. as a child from Soviet Russia and wound up in Philadelphia. Anya tells Brent about her latest book "National Dish" and Japanese convenience store as well as the "Pizza Effect." Anya also shares a story about being puzzled by the food offerings in U.S. grocery stores as a newly arrived expat from the U.S.S.R. [Ep 245] Show Notes: National Dish: Around the World in Search of Food, History, and the Meaning of Home