Russians have culture of drinking vodka which is connected with using different types of snacks. Not every snacks is good for vodka. Russians prefer to have some vodka with pickled herring, marinated cucumber, red caviar. It is traditional titbits at the table where vodka is served. Russian eat all this products for a taste. It [...]
Russian snacks for vodka
April 17th, 2009 · Comments Off
Tags: General
Easter meals – Russian style
April 8th, 2009 · Comments Off
Easter is one of the most impotant holidays of Russian ortodox church. Many days before Eastertide ortodox believers keep the fast. They don’t eat meat, milk products, eggs, don’t drink alcohol and don’t even use salt and oil cooking their meals. But when Eastertide comes, Russian usually have rich dinners with a lot of delicious [...]
Russian frozen foods
March 2nd, 2009 · Comments Off
Russian climate is very changeable. That is why since ancient times people looked for the opportunity to store meals for a long time. That times appeared dried products like fish that Russian name “vobla”, herbal teas and so on. Special kind of food in Russia was frozen food. Of course, frozing meals was possible only [...]
What foreigners think about Russian meals? (II)
February 18th, 2009 · Comments Off
Man from Chili: Russian meals has meat as its main component. I think Russia is all like big piece of meat. Extremal weather, serious people… Siberians need to have power to live almost all year long in winter, so people in Siberia eat a lot of meat. In spite of eating a lot of meat, [...]
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Tastes of Soviet Russia
February 12th, 2009 · Comments Off
A lot of Russian people associate Soviet Union with excellent quality of products its factories produced. Soviet period of Russian history is characterized with no imported product in the shops and markets. Those day Russia had its own high developed industry. Food industry of Soviet Russia produced different meals of high quality. The most tasty [...]
Tags: History
