Nine Stars for Moscow as Russia Gets Its First Michelin Guide
Put down those plates full of pelmeni, pass by the carts packed with pirozhki, and keep the blini and borscht on a slow cook on the stove. Muscovites no longer down pints...
Put down those plates full of pelmeni, pass by the carts packed with pirozhki, and keep the blini and borscht on a slow cook on the stove. Muscovites no longer down pints...
This chocolate beer cake doesn’t contain nearly enough alcohol to get anyone drunk – even if you never drink beer, abhorring the taste as in my case, or even if you feed...
So you’ve spread yourself some peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and your peanut butter cheesecake with an oreo crumb is contentedly chilling all alone in the fridge, and you’ve sat yourself down...
Whether dunking figures headfirst into hot coffee, laying waste to two-story family homes and rummaging for the fragments of icing and chocolate, or pressing half-imagined men and women together in indecent postures...
Throughout Scandinavia and especially in Sweden, 13 December – right at the heart of advent – means the celebration of Lucia. One of the most relished dates in the Swedish calendar, marking...
The addition of a condiment can sometimes turn an insubstantial side into a hearty supper. In James Joyce‘s ‘Two Gallants’, Lenehan stops at a shop for something to eat: ‘He paused at last before...
Little over a year ago, my partner and I celebrated her birthday in the company of others, and made for the occasion a princess cake: the delirious Swedish prinsesstårta. This was shortly before the dessert appeared...
When Henry Graham and Henrietta Lowell first meet in Elaine May’s 1971 film A New Leaf, it is over a cup of tea, or rather three cups, and quite literally over them...
The tasty chokladboll, infamously once – and alas occasionally still – known as the negerboll, the humble chocolate ball when translated into English, is one of the most popular of all Swedish...