Tushonka: Cultivating Soviet Postwar Taste (2010)
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"One such solution was a method proposed in 1809 by the French pastry chef Nicolas François Appert, which involved long-cooking meat or vegetables (approximately 1-2 hours) and pasteurizing the finished product in a brine solution. Appert received a personal award for this invention from Napoleon."
Old tushonkka was tasty but many of those sold in stores now, especially the cheap ones, are not so tasty and good-quality.