Word: blini
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...they feel welcome. But unlike the Italians, Spaniards and Greeks who arrived a generation ago, they don't find many places that their stomachs can call home. The city has only a dozen Eastern European restaurants. The most prominent: Le Grand Mayeur, a Slavic restaurant with terrific borscht and blini; and Le Jardin de Budapest and Hungaria, both offering Hungarian specialties like stuffed cabbage and Hungarian sauerkraut. For Slovaks, Poles, Estonians and Slovenians, though, the only way to get home cooking is to cook it at home. Luckily, shops like Polskie Delikatesy, Le Roi du Jambon and Charcuterie Hongroise import...
...French, too, are rediscovering old-style foods - notably, that Christmas- season staple, the chestnut. At Monaco's Le Louis XV restaurant, chef Franck Cerutti has been dazzling patrons with fresh takes on such down-home dishes as vegetable stew with chestnuts and fennel, and a light blini, the hearty Russian cousin to the crepe, made with freshly ground chestnut flour...
Anne K. Kofol ’04, a Crimson editor, is a history and literature concentrator in Mather House. This summer she is studying Russian in St. Petersburg and enjoying her blini with chocolate. She vows to be nicer to tourists when she gets back to New York in August...