Saveur Blog Awards Finalist
2017 and 2018
in Best Travel Blog category
I write stories about food, travel, and things that matter like sustainability and my mild obsession with Hollywood actors. Home is Russia, but I currently live in Germany and eat rye bread with butter every day.
Read more
Baking banana bread while in lockdown became a cliche rivaled, probably, only by making sourdough. The former requires much less skill, patience, and time, though, so here we are. I am not afraid of being a cliche — after all,…
Read more
Strawberries with sour cream require only three ingredients. You’d think there’s nothing easier to prepare. However, since I don’t make this dish for nourishing the body, but primarily for reviving childhood memories, the stakes are high. First of all, the…
Read more
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…
Read more
I am late again. Even more so than last month. Today is the 8th of August and I just sat down to write about my adventures in local and seasonal eating in July. I have a peach galette in the…
Read more
I had great plans for June: cherry vareniki, a peach galette, a strawberry cobbler, and maybe even a jar of gooseberry jam. I went to the market, got all of the fruits, and then proceeded to eat them raw. Several…
Read more
Sometimes I crave to write down a few of my thoughts simply in order to keep them organized, preserved, and all in one place. I swear I am not going to make it a full-blown two-thousand-word article with clear beginning,…
Read more
I woke up at 6.15 in the morning. My husband was about to leave for work. My son was screaming. “6.15 is too early… I can’t start the day at 6.15, Kroshka, please, go back to sleep.” He listened, we…
Read more
A few months ago I saw one of my friends’ babies turn half a year which they celebrated with a full-blown party and half a cake. Get it? Half a year — half a cake. “Is that a thing now…
Read more
I am known around the block as that lady who rocks her baby to sleep every time, apparently. The other day, when I was — appropriately — rocking my son in front of my apartment building so I can put…
Read more
Strawberries with sour cream require only three ingredients. You’d think there’s nothing easier to prepare. However, since I don’t make this dish for nourishing the body, but primarily for reviving childhood memories, the stakes are high. First of all, the…
Read more
On July 4th, season 3 of Stranger Things hit Netflix and immediately smashed its ratings records with over 40 million households streaming the show. If we assume there are two people in every household (which I guess is way below…
Read more
“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…
Read more
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…
Read more
