Saveur Blog Awards Finalist
2017 and 2018
in Best Travel Blog category
I write stories about food, culture, and things that matter like sustainability and hot Brazilian men. Home is Russia, but I currently live in Germany and eat rye bread with butter every day.
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about hearty Russian
food and enigmatic
Russian soul.
Mondays were for grocery shopping. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays — for baking cakes and making jam, Thursdays and Saturdays for selling the said cakes and jam at the farmers’ market, Sundays… did Sundays even happen? My only day off a…
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Before I get into all the cool and fun things to do in Colombo, allow me to tell you about my first encounter with this city. Have I told this story before? I think I have. But here goes. I…
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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” Margaret Mead Let me tell you one thing about travel: it disrupts your routine. Here you are…
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A few months ago I decided to create a Russian version of this blog. I am Russian after all, so why don’t I write in my native tongue? After setting everything up, the IT guy told me that my articles…
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The biggest pain of living in Sri Lanka back in 2010 — apart from ants occasionally swimming in my tea and men screaming obscenities to me in the street — was lack of good coffee. And although nine years later…
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Time to reveal my favorite meals of the year and where you can find them! Actually the right time would have been before New Year, but I was too busy celebrating and missed the deadline… by two weeks. Well, better…
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My blog’s name works on so many levels I want to jump around in joy! That’s What She Had in 2018 — a round-up of my favorite meals of the year — is yet to come. I am also thinking…
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It’s not impossible that by the end of writing this guide for a weekend in Austin I’ll be crying tears of nostalgia, but I am going to write it all the same. You see, Austin used to be my home…
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“Overwhelmed” should be defined in the dictionary as the feeling you get when trying to choose the best dining options on your first visit to New York. Even if you google “the absolute best most delicious critically acclaimed must-try foods…
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My blog’s birthday is impossible to forget because it coincides with Thanksgiving. My very first blog post — one of the few I didn’t correct through the years to be able to look back and gasp in disbelief at my…
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