Boeuf Gras, or, Fat Bull = Fat Tuesday
In 2011, the event takes place on March 3, thanks to a personal message from the Office of Tourism in …
Tag Archives: Lent
From Mother Russia with Love: The Domostroi
Cabbage soup and gruel are our food. (Shchi da kasha, pishche nashe.) ~~Russian peasant proverb Trying to ferret out tidbits …
From Mother Russia with Love: A Fish in Every Pie
The kulebyaka should be appetizing, shameless in its nakedness, a temptation to sin. ~~ Anton Chekov, “The Siren” Fish dishes …
From Mother Russia with Love: Meaty Mushrooms and Relentless Lent
One of her greatest pleasures in summer was the very Russian sport of hodit’ po gribi (looking for mushrooms). Fried …
From Mother Russia with Love: A Monster of a Stove and Tolokno
You can’t cook porridge with a fool. ~~ Russian Proverb ~~ An example of Russian Lenten food, tolokno or oat …
Cooking Fish — Let Us Count the World’s Ways: Asia 1
In Asia, cooking fish presents no problem to thousands of ingenious cooks. The abundance of fish and the surfeit of …
Idylls of Cuisine, #53
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.]
Mrs. Sherman G. Bonney on Lent and Fish
Lent used to be a far more widespread concept in American society than one might think. As Mark Kurlansky made …
A Bloody Fish Story
The price of fish is something nice — for fishmongers through the centuries, that is. And over the years, observers …
Idylls of Cuisine, #52
[A photograph, and nothing more, for silent contemplation.] *I usually don’t write anything for these “picture-only” posts, but I encourage …
