A note about my restaurant reviews: New York City counts many Eastern European restaurants scattered across the five boroughs, most of them ignored by restaurant critics and diners alike. I intend to visit…
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September 2014
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This is slightly off-topic, but I was invited to give a talk on the Future of Food at TED this past Tuesday — the video is available here for the next 7 days…
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MeatRecipesRussian FoodVegetables
Grilling with Peat, Russian Pork Shashlyks and Potato Lyulya-Kebabs
by FlorianI’ve been using natural wood for grilling shashlyks and other kebabs for quite a while now (I explained the process in my lyulya-kebab recipe post). The wood smoke certainly imparts some flavor, but the…
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Earlier this week, I published a story on Vice’s food blog, MUNCHIES. The article (its title was picked by the editor) retraces my search for Tajikistan’s national dish, qurutob, both in Dushanbe and…
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If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve probably seen some recent tweets about my upcoming talk on the Future of Food at TED@IBM. One of themes I’ll be discussing is food waste,…