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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I went out to have coffee with my two kids the other day. Not that all three of us were having coffee, rather I was having coffee, and they were present. Correction: I was trying to have coffee and their…
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When I was a kid, I was sure my parents had me only so I did the chores they didn’t want to do themselves. Like going out for bread on a Sunday morning. “Yulyosha, can you run out and get…
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Remember that time when I made waffles obsessively and took a happiness course? If not, I wrote about it here. Also, if you are judging me, the happiness course was developed by a Yale University professor which makes it totally…
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In the past year I barely cooked anything new. When I did it was mainly in summer, those three wonderful months when farmer’s markets were overflowing with freshly dug out goodness, when the stove was mostly off giving way to…
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“I don’t know what I think until I write it down.” Joan Didion Where do I even start? Maybe I should tell you all about how 2022 was a challenging year. Wait, I have already. I’ve been singing the same…
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