If you relish cooking what’s in season, spring is the happiest time! With all this springtime bounty, and because it’s not yet so hot that cooking anything apart from gazpacho…
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Salat Olivier takes center stage in the Eastern European holiday line up. This beloved mayonnaise-based potato salad has had a long and storied history invented during the heyday of Imperial…
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Wholesome ingredients and preparation methods are the key to making this easy and healthy, yet hearty, rich, and very satisfying Eastern European cabbage soup.
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The time has come for a frank discussion about mayonnaise. (more…)
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Fast Food - 19th-century Russian style. (more…)
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Solyanka -- the Slavic bouillabaisse a little bit of everything... (more…)
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My “Handsome Russian husband”, “HRH” is suffering from the previous week’s excesses. He’s had too much bad food to eat, way too much alcohol to drink, not enough…
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Like most women in Russia, I live with a beer expert.
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