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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The classic Soviet New Year’s menu is as resistant to change as the current regime. It all hinges on two mandatory, incredibly labor-intensive, mayonnaise-based cold salads: Salad Olivier and Herring…
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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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