Russian Cuisine: We at Russian Cuisine try to do our best to represent the world of Russian food and dainties, Russian recipes and cooking, Russian culture and traditions. Russian Cuisine represents a wonderful bouquet of many cultural traditions and influences that have been absorbed over many centuries. For instance, a drink, as Russian today as tea, was brought to Russia as the most precious gift from a Mongolian khan. This herb turned over the way of life there and up to now Russians drink tea 3-5 times a day. Tea has always been served with candies, pies, pryaniki and pastries. Rivers, in days of old were overfilled with different kinds of fish, that made for variety of fish table in the Rus. Fish, caviars and milt became part and parcel of every meal and especially of “Zakuski”. However, the basic food of Russian cuisine go back to ancient times and include all kinds of vegetables, mushrooms, meat, milk products, honey, fruits and berries, and a variety of wheat, barley, and rye grains.
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While no one person can be credited with the inception of cinema, the brothers Auguste and Louis Lumiere contributed greatly to the commercial spread of the cinema throughout Europe and Asia. Having patented the cinematograph in France in Febr... more
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Cooking Horoscope
Food table The section of culinary horoscop "Food table" suggest you a list of products (meat, vegetables, fruit and spices), necessary and useful to a certain sign of zodiac. It doesn't mean, that you should follow only the indicated food allowance, but bear this menu in mind and eat as regular as possible - this is the pledge of your health.... more
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Russian Classics
Arkady Averchenko ...A few looks are exchanged.
"Shall we start? Whose turn is it today?"
"Mine."
"Not at all. Yours was the day before yesterday....more
Anton Chekhov Grisha, a fat, solemn little person of seven, was standing by the kitchen door listening and peeping through the keyhole. In the kitchen something extraordinary, and in his opinion never seen before, was taking place. A big, thick-set, red-haired peasant, with a beard, and a drop of perspiration on his nose, wearing a cabman's full coat, was sitting...more
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