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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Russian Classics
Fyodor Dostoevsky "Our dietary is according to the ancient conventual rules. During Lent there are no meals provided for Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. For Tuesday...more
Ivan Turgenev The dinner, though hastily prepared, was very good and even abundant; only the wine was not quite up to the mark; it was sherry, almost black, bought by Timofeich in the town from a well-known merchant, and it had a flavor of copper or resin; the flies also were a nuisance. On ordinary days a serf boy used to keep driving them away with a big green...more
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