Pumpkin soup
Tanya
Whether you like to eat pumpkin, or not, you will agree that pumpkin plays a leading role in the fall...
Triple Ukha
Triple Ukha is fish broth within fish broth within fish broth, which makes triple fish soup. “It’s delicious! You must...
Night Train.
Blog
Novosibirsk. May 1945. Iskra was sitting by the window in an overcrowded common car of a slow night train. Although...
Veniceworld
Fedor
What is this place? A living museum of culture and history? A playground for the rich and the famous? An...
I Love Red Cabbage
Cabbage is usually associated with old, been around, peasant food, not a sophisticated, luxury or trendy vegetable. There is no...
Family members of another kind.
We like to tell the stories about our family – see them all in the Time Travel section of our...
Selyodka pod shuboy
Growing up in Siberia, I knew all about cold weather. Winter meant wearing a fur coat (shuba) made of real...
Russian love affair – Torte Napoleon
The French “Mille Fueille” or a “thousand layer” cake has been embraced and entirely nationalized by the Russians where it’s...
Kreplach
The full moon of Sukkot reveals all that was hidden on the new moon of Rosh Hashanah. We’ve built Sukkah...
Chagall in Upside Down Russia
When The Russian Revolution blew up in 1917, Marc Chagall lived in Petrograd – that is how St. Petersburg was...
Bruschetta
Late summer local tomatoes are so delicious that I can’t have enough of them. I serve them sliced, in salads,...
Shchi
Want to lose weight or keep it in check – eat cabbage soup or shchi, as they call it in...