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A short history of the USSR through its food
- dimitar 11y agoNo Olivier salad? I'm surprised this staple of parties wasn't listed: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_salad https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olivier_salad
- moondowner 11y agoAh, Russian salad. Very popular in the Balkans even nowadays.
- guard-of-terra 11y agoNever heard of fried eggs with jam, but other things are mostly spot-on. I just have so wonder why red caviar seems so small-grain? Also, where are bliny?
- kushti 11y agoAnd where are pelmeni, vinaigrette, olivier? And fried eggs with jam is weird I've never heard about that.
- anthonybsd 11y agoAgreed, the "eggs with jam" seems to be genuinely made up in the cookbook. I browsed around author's website and she and her husband seem to be "food historians". In other words they travel quite a bit and people pitch recipes to them. Most of the exotic ones they never verify. In this case it seems someone has played a practical joke on them.
- anthonybsd 11y agoActually, it seems to be even longer lived than that: http://p-syutkin.livejournal.com/177938.html http://p-syutkin.livejournal.com/177938.html It's a reprint from some 1955 book. Something is definitely fishy.
- bholdr 11y agoFried eggs with Jam!? That doesn't even make sense in Russian! :)