Tag
Mondays were for grocery shopping. Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Fridays — for baking cakes and making jam, Thursdays and Saturdays for selling the said cakes and jam at the farmers’ market, Sundays… did Sundays even happen? My only day off a…
Read more
My first memory of kiribath goes back to 2013 New Year celebrations in Sri Lanka. Not the kind of New Year you greet on the last day of December with a glass of champagne in hand; but the kind you welcome on the…
Read more
Berna and I woke up in the morning after 4 hours of sleep with the same exact thought: we cannot have breakfast right now! Last night, while having meze after meze at dinner we made a perfect plan: wake up, walk to…
Read more
One early Sunday morning a girl woke up in Montreal dreaming of a beautiful hot breakfast of coffee and bagels. It wasn’t just any bagel she was craving. It was the most famous bagel of Montreal and, probably, Canada. It…
Read more
I know I use words such as “the best” and “the best I’ve ever had” quite a lot. But, in my defense, I only write about food that was superb and that I fell in love with. Second point in my…
Read more
Having lived in Russia for most of my life, I never considered winter vacation a great idea. Actually, it wasn’t even an idea. I had enough snow in my everyday life, so travelling thousands of kilometers to see some more…
Read more
Let me start by saying, that if you want people to pronounce a city’s name as Port-SMITH and not Ports-MOUTH, please, spell it that way. I don’t see any other reason behind this spelling but to confuse unsuspecting visitors and…
Read more
