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Mornings of a stay-at-home mom consist — apart from brushing someone else’s teeth, cooking eggs several different ways according to every family member’s preference and zealously gulping down coffee — of looking longingly at the husband who’s getting ready for…
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I might be eight years too late, but a few months ago I bought Ottolenghi’s Jerusalem. I flipped through pages for days in search of the perfect first recipe to make. Which one do you think caught my attention? Flawlessly…
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My grandmother Toma hates cooking. She lives alone and survives mostly on bread and cheese. Sometimes she makes a big pot of soup that lasts her a week or kasha that can be stretched for a few days. As a…
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Being a nerd that I am, I’ve decided if I am going to write about blini at all, I must cover the topic from every possible angle. Which is why I started with a classic blini recipe, then ventured into…
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There seems to be a terrible confusion about Russian buckwheat blini which no-one talks about. Namely: the small round pancakes passed as blini in the West are not what I, as a Russian, call blini. A quick Google search revealed…
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