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.
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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When it comes to food, I am a creature of habit. This defies logic because as a food blogger I am supposed to be adventurous, seek out the most trashy looking hole-in-the-wall types of restaurants, and try fried insects on…
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I am no novice to packing up my whole life and leaving the comfortable and familiar only to create a home in a land I’ve never visited before. My first move was to Sri Lanka. I lived there for a year…
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I can’t be the only person who finds food, travel, art and books to be the perfect combination for a gift and, frankly, life in general. Four of the above are essentials of my happy existence and the removal of…
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How on Earth I never watched The Sound of Music prior to visiting Salzburg I cannot explain, but a fact is a fact. The American classic escaped me — save for memes of Julie Andrews dancing in the meadow with…
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