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How to Support Local Businesses in St. Petersburg
Social distancing is the right thing to do right now, but along with shutting down the virus, there’s a great risk we’ll shut down small businesses as well. The good news is that many of our favorite businesses in St. Petersburg have expanded their delivery options – you can get anything from food to gifts – and have come up with other ways to raise support, like offering future gift certificates. You brighten up your day, they get a lifeline. Let’s get through this together!
05.05.2020
Do Comfort Food Like a Russian
Spending way too much time in our kitchens, we’re turning to food for comfort as well as nourishment. Russians are pros at feeling happy through food - would you like a spoonful?
13.04.2020
How to Follow a Healthy Diet During Self-Isolation
It’s hard to lead a healthy lifestyle during self-isolation. Staying at home, limited leisure options, lack of outdoor activities, and boredom are stressful for people both mentally and physically. Stress often leads to overeating and addiction to sweet, greasy, and salty foods. Rospotrebnadzor (The Federal Service for Surveillance on Consumer Rights Protection and Human Wellbeing) advises you to support your immunity with healthy eating habits by following the recommendations of the World Health Organization. We’ve compiled a list of tips from experts and apps for daily food tracking that may come in handy during the isolation period.
07.04.2020
A Guide to Food Delivery in St. Petersburg
Food delivery is one of the best inventions of the modern age, if you ask me. It’s a great option when you’re tired (or lazy), busy, or simply bored with what you usually eat. It may also come in handy during these troubling times when you shouldn’t leave the house too often. We have compiled a guide to food deliveries available in St. Petersburg based on personal experience.
31.03.2020
Love Canned Goods Like a Russian
Think Andy Warhol’s soup cans were iconic? Russia has its own cans that are just as famous, with their contents inspiring midnight pantry raids.
30.03.2020
Russian Spring Foods You Have to Try
If you see a guy taking a drill to a birch tree, don’t freak out. All he is doing is collecting the birch tree juice, one of the spring favorites in Russia.
16.03.2020
Taste Maslenitsa Like a Russian
Nothing says party like pancakes, butter, and setting stuff on fire. This week Russia celebrates Maslenitsa – one of our favorite spring holidays. Here’s how you can get in on the action.
24.02.2020
Fuel Up On Breakfast Like a Russian
Forget the sugar-loaded Fruit Loops! How about giving those healthy habits resolutions a chance and check out these seriously delicious – and mostly healthy – Russian breakfasts?
13.01.2020
Arctic Snacks: ITMO University Researchers Develop Functional Foods for Far North Regions
Regions of the Far North make up more than half of Russia’s total area. A large part of these territories is found in the Arctic zone, where environmental conditions present a serious challenge to the inhabitants. The issue of nutrition is a major one in these areas, especially for people involved in demanding physical work. A group of graduate and postgraduate students from ITMO University are developing a solution to the issue in the form of a balanced ready-to-eat meals for consumption in cold weather conditions. The project has recently been showcased during the 11th Eurasian Science Forum “25 Years of Eurasian Integration: Origins, Realities, Potential”.
08.01.2020
New Year in Russia: Traditional Foods
I’m not really a fan of various New Year traditions; I don't like the obligatory exchange of presents, and chopping down live trees just to throw them away in a week’s time doesn’t sound like a good idea, either. Still, there’s one custom that’s sacred to me – and that’s the New Year’s dinner, which is a very special event for almost every Russian. And since you can’t have a meal without food, it is the traditional Russian New Year foods that will be our topic today!
17.12.2019