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The Baguette Wars

“Грех жаловаться,” the Russians say, or “it’s a sin to complain.”

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Shopping Just Got A Whole Lot Easier!

One day I was trawling the chilly meat section of Metro Cash & Carry.  

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Navigating Moscow’s Supermarkets

From the alphabet of taste to the 7th Continent: a guide to Moscow’s supermarkets.

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Hot & Sour Soup: A Blast From The Past

Nothing in Moscow comes easy and that is especially true when it comes to finding great Chinese food.

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For No Eyes Only: Wild Rice Salad

My friend Dee Dee is test-driving Veganism with impressive results. 

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Rum Raisin Apple Pie

It’s definitely apple season and that means one thing:  apple pie!  

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Green Soup

A staple of the Moscovore household lineup, this soup is flexible, incredibly delicious and amazingly good for you.

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Roasting Chicken The (Up)right Way

There’s only one way to do a chicken:  standing on its head!  

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Nourishing Your Skin as Winter Sets In!

Guest blogger, nutritionist Kerry Martin of The Well Room offers some tips for keeping your skin glowing as winter sets in!

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hate to clean fish? Sea bass made easy

Roasted Sea Bass with Pastis on a Fennel Trivet

So, you love fish, but you don’t love to clean them. Fair enough.  Just say this:

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Ragu Bolognese

What is it about the mouth-watering food of Bologna that makes foreigners want to massacre it?

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What Do You Do About: Chicken Stock?

As far as I am concerned, chicken stock is the elixir of life.  

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A Deftly Executed Arabesque

Claudia Roden’s latest book on Middle Eastern cuisine is part cookery book, part travelogue, with a generous pinch of The Arabian Nights thrown in.

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What Do You Do About: Buttermilk?

Welcome to our regular series called “What Do You Do About?”  where we tackle seemingly insurmountable problems in your Moscovore kitchen.  Today we tackle: buttermilk.

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Slow Cookers 101

Everything eventually gets to Russia, so I was not blown away to see the slow cooker make an appearance.  

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