A return visit from your exchange student from snow country.   Last week, we spoke about Russian weather. We understand that Russia isn’t only a snowy country. Here we can see all the seasons.

Today we will open another Russian secret.  Imagine that you went to rest, for example, in Japan. The local food is completely different and you miss your native food. I want to tell you what the Russians miss abroad.

Food

I should promptly say: vodka and blini are not the only food we eat, although they are popular, of course. There are a lot of other traditional dishes like borsh (the soup made of meat, beetroot, potatoes and other vegetables, which is usually served with sour cream called Smetana), uha (a fish soup), holodetz (meat jelly which is not really beloved abroad, I have to say), olivier (salad made of vegetables, potatoes and meat with mayonnaise; it’s especially popular during the New Year holidays) okroshka (in fact, it’s Olivier but with kvas instead of mayonese. By the way, kvas is Russian “Coca cola”) and so on. I should also mention Russian pickles and jams (we make them a lot as we grow and collect a lot of vegetables and berries) and different cakes.

See you next week with a new portion of myths.

Andrew Perevalov
Andrew Perevalov