Starving in Russia!

[peacetraveler22]

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[alexeykostylev]

Eating eyeballs?! O_O :) btw, Its a great idea to scale the fish before eating :)

Living in NZ I miss dryied and solted fish very much as well as smoked. Yamee..

The problem is you don't like mayones. In the bowl is very famous russian salad "оливье". I've seen many times the local kiwis eat it with great pleasure. And they quite like salad "селедка под шубой" which you don't like too, as far as I remember.

So, its just the matter of taste.

[peacetraveler22]

You're right! It's a matter of taste, and I don't like mayo, fish or any seafood. So, I'm pretty much screwed culinary wise each time I visit Russia. Of course, there are some foreigners who like Russian cuisine. There are no Russian stores in your area, where you can buy native food? In DC, we have several.

[alexeykostylev]

There are a few, but we are too far from Russia, so they have only well preserved or canned food. Its incomparable with fresh food, and range is much poorer.. ( Of smoked fish they have only salmon or possibly mackerel, whereas in Russia at a market I could choose between at least 5 sorts of smoked fish.

[onkel_hans]

The Russian stores are normally run by the best kind of Russians, the Jews. They do prepare locally many delicious Russian style meals.
Don't you have any Jews in the Antipodes?

[ggx_2]

Dried pike... My favorite fish snack after dried flounder, but it's a pain to clean meat off skin and bones. However, this applies to most big snacks of this type.
And sorry for my bad english. Haven't practised it for a long time.

[peacetraveler22]

Why apologize for bad English? In this comment, everything you write is perfect English. :) I hope my blog helps you practice reading English, and don't be afraid to comment here because of language barriers. I will understand what you write!

[nepeanois]

just live with it. in russia it's 'no cool' to do things in a less than perfect way in public, hence you will see those self-excuses rather often. not that they care, they just take a defensive position

[peacetraveler22]

Oh, yes. I completely understand because I am communicating with only Russians and Russian speakers in my blog. Sometimes they even try to correct my English. But mostly they just come up with conspiracy theories about the way I write English - the most popular is that I'm a former Soviet English teacher. :))

[berngardovka]

hmmmm i don't what to say,,, i like belgian beer, italian cheeses and wine, dutch beer cheese snacks... oh! idea! i love our soups like solyanka

[peacetraveler22]

Belgian beer is great! I drank it for my birthday celebration, and for the first time had cherry flavored beer. Delicious!

It's not actually beer

[onkel_hans]

It's is called "lambic". A kind of hard cider. Hard cider being made of apples and pears, lambic - differently, more like an ale.

Do you like hard ale?

As you could have seen, I am a beer lover, what I call The Beer is "Pilsner Prazdroj" with a hell lot of hops, or occasionally - India Pale Ale.

Re: It's not actually beer

[peacetraveler22]

I like Woodchuck cider in America. I haven't drank many other cider brands here.

[born_in1978]

Hm, taranka is delicious, but it is dangerous cause it could lead to botulism.

So I like orkroshka much more. It's not a snack, but it is much safer :)

[peacetraveler22]

Why can it lead to botulism?

[born_in1978]

I'm not a doctor, but doctors often warn to not eat taranka because of botulism.
I've heard of many such deceases.

[notabler]

It's wrong, I don't believe that dried fish can be source of botulism. This bacteria is anaerobic and can't develop in presence of oxigen

[girlspell]

Love Russian food!!! I have a Russian coworker. I try to eat some of the food she brings in! She goes to a Russian store. Yes, I've eaten the yogurt. White Fish, Did you you know the bagel is really Russian?

[peacetraveler22]

How can it be? I've never seen bagels during any of my Russian visits! Cool avatar. :)

[girlspell]

My coworker told me. It's pronounced similar in the Russian language. The Jews in Russia adapted the food there (as they did in all countries they were in) I'm an Italian Jew. I was born in Italy. Never saw a bagel in my life till I moved to New York. They are called Bublik (various spelling) But anyway "Jewish food" are just adaptations of any country's food.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bublik

[ext_1460040]

There are a number of dishes in America that were introduced by immigrants from Russia in early 20th century.

And recently, things such as Kefir made a big intro into US market.

20 years ago? No kefir in US.