Mikoyan spearheaded a project to produce a home cookbook, which would encourage a return to the domestic kitchen. The result, "The Book of Tasty and Healthy Food" ("", "Kniga o vkusnoi i zdorovoi pishche"), was published in 1939, and the 1952 edition sold 2.5 million copies. Mikoyan helped initiate the production of ice cream in the USSR and kept the quality of ice cream under his own personal control until he was dismissed. Stalin made a joke about this, stating, "You, Anastas, care more about ice cream, than about communism." Mikoyan also contributed to the development of meat production in the USSR (particularly, the so-called Mikoyan cutlet), and one of the Soviet-era sausage factories was named after him.