The entire article suffers from a common misconception that former communist countries "suffered horribly from lack of innovation," when it was a negative again

The entire article suffers from a common misconception that former communist countries "suffered horribly from lack of innovation," when it was a negative against many other positives of the time. Food was cheaper and higher quality than now. For example, Czechs still love this cookbook because it set a high bar for quality of ingredients for schools and work cafeterias. They don't see it as confining as much as defining.