I published a new article on MUNCHIES a few days ago: Ice Fishing Is Amazing, If You Can Stand the Frostbite. It’s more about the hardships faced by the ice angler than about food, …

I don’t really have any new recipe for you for Paskha, so you’ll have to check out my compilation from last year. Don’t think I’ve been sitting on my butt eating a …

The weather was bitterly cold that March morning, and whiteout conditions were looming. Only a handful of indomitable fishermen (us, obviously) had braved the elements and ventured out on the frozen lake, drilling …

What do you do when you write a blog about Eastern European food and go to Prague on vacation? You go to plenty of restaurants, of course! Of all the destinations east …

Despite my efforts to create original recipes, the most popular post on this blog remains Blini and Oladi, Russian Pancakes. Not exactly the most innovative dish, one must admit. But I guess I’ve got …

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 …

… is available for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes and Noble! The above video, produced by the Institute of Culinary Education, gives a taste of things to come. I introduced Chef Watson on …

About three years ago, I found a little cookbook called Bayram: Bashkir and Tatar Cuisine, with plenty of inspiring recipes and attractive pictures, which I promptly used to create my Lamb Shanks Ufa. …

After the recent birch syrup pie, here’s a second serving of kefir ice cream with birch syrup — but in a totally different format, and with the very peculiar flavor of sea-buckthorn. Sea-buckthorn …

Frequent readers will certainly have noticed some changes in Food Perestroika’s look and feel over the past few days. This is still a work in progress, so I apologize for the less-than-perfect appearance. …