Another Shore - Russia

A recent episode of The Keiser Report described a new trend for locavore cuisine in Moscow and presented this interest in locally-sourced i...

One of the culinary delights in Russia is the range of soups and this one is one of my favourites. It's meaty and rich... and delicious....

a Turkish brand of bubble gum that was hugely popular in the former USSR countries in the 1990s and is still available in Russia today. ...

A Tulsky pryanik is one of those things that Russians appear to think that everyone abroad knows about Russia and buys as a souvenir... like...

Saw this beauty on a Russian social network... Can you tell what it is yet?

Finally finished off the New Year food...

New Year in Russia is a bit like Christmas in the UK. It's the day when you tidy ready for a clean New Year, exchange for presents and c...

So here I am on a bitterly cold, icy Sunday morning in Sheffield. I could've been doing so many relaxing things... sipping tea while rea...

When I first arrived in Russia and started talking to students about food, it quickly became apparent that the two most popular Russian dish...

The is one of the easiest Russian desserts to make. Kartoshka means potato, yet there's no potato in it... the lying bastards! [edi...

Produced by the Moscow-based Krasniy Oktyabr (Red October) confectioners since the mid 1960s, this is one of the most recognisable products...

Golubtsi is an Eastern European dish, claimed as theirs by half the nations of the former USSR even though it's found across Europe and ...

I'll be uploading a photo every month - one that means something to me personally or somehow represents something about Russia. I tho...

Many Russians have a dacha , a country house. If a Brit mentions going to spend the weekend at the country house, you think of the landed ge...

When you live abroad for a while, especially when you're talking years, you pick up a taste for the local food, eating habits which stay...

The place where I worked in Russia had its own cafe and they prepared the food in a home-cooked way, but on a larger scale. One of the delig...

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When I grew up in the north of England, salad wasn’t unusual but it certainly was unspectacular. I’m not saying I’m common but salad was a ...