Reviewing two of Murmansk’s top restaurants for Arctic and Nordic cuisine: Tsarskaya Okhota and Tundra, both members of the sprawling Restaurant Syndicate.
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Discover the history of Murmansk and the Kola Peninsula. Plus a monument to codfish, reindeer races, and some colorful coats of arms.
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Looking for a Siberian/Arctic restaurant that serves 25 different dishes with deer, 11 with scallops, or 8 with porcini? Try Expeditsia in Moscow!
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Happy holidays! Here’s a selection of my best holiday recipes and my most popular recipes of 2020.
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A Russian-ish holiday game recipe, inspired by two entries from The Derrydale Game Cookbook, and a short biography of Louis Pullig De Gouy.
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Some people travel to Croatia to enjoy the beach, take Game of Thrones selfies, and finish their nights at the disco. Perhaps they visit the occasional old Venetian town and enjoy a…
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In my recent review of Zagreb’s finer dining options, one of the dishes I tried at Vinodol was the cottage cheese ravioli with smoked mussels, Adriatic shrimp, and cherry tomato sauce (which…
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In my last post about Zagreb’s Dolac Market, I inundated you with information about meat production in Croatia. This time, as we continue our progression into the indoor stalls, we find ourselves…
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In my recent post about restaurant Vinodol in Zagreb, I got to try veal “under the bell” – teletina ispod peke or pod pekom in Croatian. Dating from Neolithic times, the peka…
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Being over a hundred kilometers from the Adriatic coast, Zagreb may not be the top Croatian destination in most tourists’ minds. Yet the capital city certainly has much to offer, not only…