As you can see in these photos, I have managed to recreate a 100% Soviet festive table. Just like everybody else, Soviet people wanted to eat well and cook interesting, complex dishes. But there were constant shortages of food, and the selection of ingredients was very limited. So people went out of their way to create a variety of dishes from the same few ingredients.
This table is my tribute to the harsh Soviet past.
Is that snow I spy on the blog? 😀
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OMG, it’s true, the snow just started! AND it follow the direction of my cursor this year!!!
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Is that Ho Ch Minh’s condemned property in the upper right hand corner?
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I would say yes if it weren’t for the moustache. I hadn’t paid attention before and thought moustache didn’t exist.
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Dill leaves! Walnuts! Some good things were available.
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Unless one lived in the country-side, these things had to be bought at a market. I maybe got to see walnuts once a year on New Year’s Eve.
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