Food

Food is often a large part of our identity. Eating is a deeply sensory and often communal experience. Food permeates our memories of childhood and is embedded into religious, national, and familial celebrations. Food is an everyday need often elevated to the sublime by social custom.

The importations of what we eat to who we are is perhaps never more obvious than when the individual finds themselves abroad for an extended period. Removed from homeland and home, we begin to crave the dishes of our youth. In eating these, we feel reconnected to the place and people to which we belong.

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Kartoshka Cake – The Potato-esque Russian Pastry

Kartoshka cake, known as in Russian as “пирожное картошка” (Pirozhnoe kartoshka – literally “cake potato”), or sometimes more affectionately just картошка (kartoshka – “potato”), is a mouthwatering pastry that takes many people from the former USSR back to their childhood. Once used to prevent food loss and combat shortages, kartoshka cake spread widely in the […]

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