Michael Laxer
Fish Cutlets at the Soviet Moskva Restaurant
From the Soviet Magazine Sputnik in 1982, a brief look at the Moskva Restaurant with a recipe for a house specialty: Fish Cutlets. From...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 63 min read
Tomatoes On Your Table - Sputnik Magazine 1983
w. Potato Soup with Tomatoes, Green Tomatoes with Walnuts & Tomatoes Baked with Potatoes and Eggs A brief look at the glorious tomato and...
Michael Laxer
Aug 7, 20233 min read
Bliny, Soviet style!
With recipes for Buckwheat and Wheatflour Bliny. From Sputnik Magazine, USSR 1988: Lovely round bliny, glistening and hot, like the...
Michael Laxer
Feb 10, 20223 min read
Cuisine of Old Russia: Soviet Sputnik recipes 1968 -- Vintage Cookbook TBT
w. Vladimir Salad, Russian Pokhlyobka, Meat in Beer and Fried Meat. Four classic "old" Russian recipes from the Soviet Magazine Sputnik...
Michael Laxer
Aug 16, 202118 min read
Artek: The vast Soviet internationalist complex of children's camps
An in-depth look at the Soviet Artek Pioneer youth camp, a sprawling internationalist complex of ten sub-camps and various facilities...
Michael Laxer
May 19, 20212 min read
Early Soviet car stamps, 1975
Released in 1975 these five Soviet stamps look at motor vehicle production in the early USSR. Starting from the top left the vehicles...
Michael Laxer
Apr 22, 20216 min read
Lenin in London
“The immensity of London staggered us. Although the weather was filthy the day we arrived, Vladimir Ilyich brightened up at once and...
Michael Laxer
Apr 15, 20211 min read
Sputnik's April 1968 Russian Cuisine -- Vintage Cookbook TBT
w. Karavai, Kundyubki (Bear's Ears), Honey Pryaniki, Chicken Surprise and Russian Pancakes. Today we are going back to April 1968 to...
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