Breakfast Time
For breakfast today I made Matzo Brei with Jerusalem matzos, Chinese mushrooms and a Russian egg. While cooking and eating this marvelous new dish, I watched an interview with America's…
What You Can Buy in Moscow
Like all great minds, I had a dream... Well, I don't have a mind that great, so my dream was little - 20 centimeters, to be precise. In an old…
Why Wear Face Mask in Studio or for Standup?
Have you noticed that television reporters doing lives from what seems to be a virus-free area and even announcers in studio wear face masks? How come this cameraman doesn't have…
Cats
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Buckwheat vs. Toilet Paper
Today I prepared a new dish for lunch: that rare stuff known in Russian as "Greek groats". Fried with mushrooms. Well, it is not Greek, of course. I'm kidding. The…
Moscow is Deceptively Quiet
Today I had to break my self-imposed quarantine to buy some essentials, namely dog food for Laima and Cayenne pepper and Corona beer for myself, and had a chance to…
Edward Bernays, Father of Public Relations
Back in 1990 I was attending a social meeting of some kind, organized by Harvard, in Cambridge, MA. In those years being Russian at Harvard was not too common and…
Frozen 2 Shopping
Everything is about Frozen 2 in Moscow stores these days...