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Feastern Europe Website Update

It has been many months since I posted new content or an update to the Feastern Europe website. I’ve had a draft post titled “Russian pancakes” pending publication since early this year. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February and resulting war initially stopped me in my tracks. The conflict has made me rethink how I want to approach things on the site going forward. I’ve always pointed out the varying names for dishes in the relevant Eastern European languages and I often struggle over which cuisine to categorize them under. The cuisines and recipes featured here are so closely connected that sometimes it seems that making distinctions between them is pointless.

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Feastern Europe the cuisines of Eastern Europe

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In this blog we’ll be exploring the cuisines of Eastern Europe. Most of my culinary specialities, the things I make that no one else in my circle prepares, are almost all from Eastern Europe. I spent considerable time in two Eastern European countries–Russia and Bulgaria–but I also visited several others, even if all too briefly. My travels have taken me to the Czech Republic, Ukraine, Russia, Bulgaria and Latvia, the only non-Slavic one in the bunch.

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