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In the stretch of Europe from the Baltic Sea to the Black Sea, where Moscow and the West have competed for influence for decades, the threat of a new military conflict is growing.
Kurt Drummer, East Germany’s greatest TV chef, taught a nation to cook well with less Laura Kiniry © Illustration: Karl Gustafson Walking down the aisles of my local San Francisco grocery store last April, it was like I’d suddenly found myself behind the Iron Curtain. Aisles typically stocked with all-purpose flour and boxes of rigatoni and linguine pasta were nearly bare, save for a couple bags of cake flour and some whole wheat spaghetti that, for whatever reason, nobody wanted to touch. Produce bins regularly filled with mandarins and romaine lettuce were depleted, to...