Home Made Sausage is an Invitation to Our Table

Nowadays there are many sites on Internet and books with recipes. By the way, such a book of my own is at your disposal presented in the Calgarian food store “European Deli” under the title “Cornucopia of the Russian Delights”. Home made food is good and I would say, it’s better than in any restaurants….

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Happy Birthday, Valentina!

                      “Happy Birthday, Valentina!” From the family of daughter larisa and my grandson Gleb who sent a big bouquet of red roses of half of meter height from Saint Petersburg, Russia, capuchino coffee from Janko, verses and a Bryansk plate from my classmates, many gifts…

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“The Possessed” Adventures with Russian Books and the People who Read Them, by Elif Batuman, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2010

A small diary of the post graduate student is brilliantly written in English by an American writer Elif Batuman in 2010.The topics mentioned in the Contents are: Babel in California, Summer in Samarkand, Who Killed Tolstoy?, The House of Ice, the Possessed. The only reader of the Russian great authors here is Miss Batuman herself….

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