Jamon The Unifier
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Last year we traveled to several regions in Spain to get the feel and, if it possible for foreigners, to...
Deep Purple
Tanya
Did you know that the Brits use a different word for an eggplant? It’s “aubergine”. Because eggplants have been cultivated...
How Lisa and Lyonya lost Sasha in a movie theater.
Sasha
Novosibirsk, 1954. Spoiler alert – they found me at the end and I’m here to tell you this story. I...
Snow bombing
It is one thing to watch disastrous weather on TV, it is another to experience such conditions firsthand. We all...
Fire and Air
“Diaghilev invented Russia for foreigners”, said Coco Chanel. Not long ago, we went to one of our favorite theaters – Classic...
Activate Plan B
It was not our first time in Barcelona. Many years ago we had a two day stop in Barcelona during a...
Dawid, Isaak, David, Isaak…
Warsaw, 1854. Dawid Berkhoer, Sasha’s great-great-grandfather, was a salesman and in 1854 lived in Warsaw at 1406 Zielna Street in the...
The Jester of Madrid
Fedor
Fall, 2017…or 1817…or 1617…Spain. I was exploring the Old Town of Madrid, without a particular destination in mind, slowly absorbing...
2 Cool for School
Kharkov, 1927. My father, Lyonya, six years old at the time, lived in Kharkov with his parents – David and...
Belyashi
Every childhood is associated with certain smells. Mine are filled with the smells of baked pies, vanilla, sugar powder. My...
Please accept our apology, Toledo!
It was our first time in Toledo. We knew that Old Toledo was one of those truly well-preserved medieval cities,...
Vitamin Beet
During my trip to Jamaica last year, while looking at the restaurant menu, I came across a beet and potato...