From Russia, With Love More than 20 years after the Soviet Union fell, Austin finally experiences some culinary glasnost By Melanie Haupt, Fri., Feb. 7, 2014 ...

Craft Food in Plano is a USSR grocery store with Eastern European eats, mystery snacks and an unforgettable food adventure. By Lauren Durie. May 29, 2025.

Voices Gorby and me: I spent a summer living in Gorbachev’s USSR – this is what it was like. The Metro was wonderful, full of ornate chandeliers, and with scary-looking babooshkas sitting at ...

I spent much of my childhood attending celebrations at many of L.A.'s Russian-speaking post-Soviet banquet halls. Tables covered in white tablecloths topped with cold appetizers called zakusky ...

Maria thought she knew a lot about life when, at age 35, she was jailed in Moscow. But she did not yet know about Russian prison food. "I didn't know people could be fed such things," said Maria ...

My Russian was fluent, and I was somehow fearless, and I convinced them that my book would be a historic survey, with recipes: the food of Tolstoy’s table and that of his peasants; the ...