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.
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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,…
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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…
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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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Never have I used cookbooks as much as in September of 2020. I can’t explain what came over me, but I was on a roll, people. Even my husband said so. There wasn’t a day in September when I didn’t…
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I have a question. Say, I want to write travel guides for food lovers (doing it already), or develop recipes (doing it rarely, but would like to devote more time to it), or review restaurants (do not want to do…
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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…
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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…
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It is only after having a child that I learned how deep into the alphabet the letters on bra labels run. Most of my life I had a D cup — a point of shame and frustration at school and…
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When Kroshka was two or three weeks old my husband and I went out for strolls around the city. Our son easily slept three hours in his stroller so we would make it to the old town, grab a coffee,…
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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…
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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…
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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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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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