I just signed a contract with a French publisher to write a cookbook! L’Archipel du Goulache will present recipes inspired by the cuisines of the former Soviet Union.
Moldova
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In my last post, I started reviewing the wine caves of Moldova. There are many other wineries in the country, and Sommelier‘s 2011 article here gives an optimistic but good overview of the …
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My latest summer peregrinations took me to the little Republic of Moldova (3.5 million inhabitants). My friends and family asked me, several times and with more than a hint of incredulity, what there …
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I have seen Chișinău’s sleepy wine cellars, crossed the renegade republics of Gagauzia and Transnistria, fished the Danube delta, and shopped at Odessa’s central market. More details soon!
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It all started with Sergey Donika’s Moldovan Cuisine, a book that one might call obscure for rather obvious reasons: 1) it’s written in Russian, 2) it was published in Chișinău, and 3) I found it …