It’s no secret that today the average Russian has more ideas about the most intricate foreign dishes than about traditional Russian cuisine. Numerous culinary shows and “gastronomic” television programs, as a rule, emphasize overseas exotics. But the knowledge of the sources of the native “kitchen” culture is the most important element of national self-awareness, the same as knowledge of the native language and history. Today you will have a unique opportunity in an easy, very interesting, and most importantly, “tasty” form to join the phenomenon of Russian cuisine.
Food in Russia often had a special, sacred meaning. The generous Russian feasts were attended by like-minded people, and the food from the simple process of saturation became a means of spiritual unification. Our trip will symbolically begin at the origins of Mother Moscow itself, in the most ancient Moscow monastery – St. Daniel’s Monastery. It is in this monastery that the miraculous relics of the first Muscovite prince, the founder of the Moscow dynasty of princes, the son of Alexander Nevsky himself, Daniil Alexandrovich, rest. Here you will learn about the peculiarities of the fast and fast food of our ancestors, about the festive menu of religious feasts, you can buy the monastic cupcake “Lamb” – a real work of monastic culinary art made according to ancient Russian recipes.
You will hear a fascinating story about the most important national food product – bread and its varieties. You will learn how the bread wine appeared and why until the 16th century only beverages based on honey were drunk in Russia. You will learn how the royal feasts took place, for example, how many and what foods were eaten at the most colossal “sovereign feast” of Boris Godunov, when 50,000 people sat down at the same time! During the bus trip along the streets of Moscow you will see the preserved buildings of ancient inns, restaurants and restaurants, you will hear a fascinating story about the world-famous “cult” restaurant “Slavianski Bazaar” and learn a lot about his most famous regular Alexandra Sergeyevich Pushkin. You will see the old building of the famous restaurant “Yar” by the Frenchman Yard at the corner of Neglinnoy and Kuznetsky Bridge, and the building in which once was the restaurant of the famous Olivier. By the way, the recipe of the modern famous salad-namesake has nothing to do with the original salad of Mr. Olivier himself! You will learn how many and what dishes were eaten at Lucullian feasts in the Merchants’ and English clubs. You will see the building of the new restaurant “Yar”, which amazed foreigners with the delights of Russian cuisine and its famous gypsy choir, and also served as a haven for the merchant elite and creative intelligentsia of the XIX century. And during the trip to the goal of our trip – to the museum “Food of Russia” you will see the places where the famous fish was caught for a special “royal ears”, which gave the name of the whole district. By the way, the soup in Russia was called not only fish, but also any liquid soup.
And find out all the subtleties of recipes and feel the forgotten tastes of the Russian national feast we can on an exciting excursion “Shchi da porridge” in the most original Moscow museum of Old Russian cuisine. Here you will plunge into the warmth of a real Russian hut. Here everything can be touched with your hands – you can poke a poker and a stick, flush yourselves with a real Russian oven, lie like Emelya, on a warm stove … The museum keeper is a very unusual and colorful character. This is a real House, and in combination – a skilful narrator and an unrivaled cook. For his almost thousand-year life in Russia, Brownie has accumulated a lot of the most unusual and new for us information on the culinary of the Russian people, with which he generously shared with us. What dish made the Russian army invincible, what did John the Terrible eat, what is the difference between the kvass, pickles and mochey, and what kind of soup and porridge are the original Russian food. You will get acquainted with the device of the wet nurse at home and the keeper of family warmth – the Russian stove, with its history, symbols and types. Cuisine princely and monastic, merchant and clerks, royal, boyar, peasant, soldier and even Bosnian. Yes, in Russia and the tramps ate well! The secrets and secrets of these cuisines will help you and on your own …
And she will continue her story at the dinner table. Here, aromatic dishes of Russian cuisine are already coming out of the smoke according to the oldest, primordially Russian recipes, from the village natural products! Here you will try “cock’s ears” (yellow saffron soup is chicken soup in Old Russian style), and gruel-stuffs of Tikhvin, and pumpkin steamed with carrots and nuts, and cranberry-cranberry mors (infusion on berries), And Ivan-tea from the samovar of the present, coal! And this is not tasting one slice of French cheese at all, not the smell of an Australian steak, but a full, hearty, hometown dinner-tasting, cooked for you in a Russian oven with caring and skillful hands. Well-fed and satisfied, full of new impressions and knowledge, and most importantly skills, we go home, embody in our kitchen the secrets of our ancestors …
Center of Moscow,
North-Western direction
Duration of the program ~ 6 hours
Price: adult / child -from 18 eur.
The price includes: transport service, excursion around Moscow hospitable, excursion in the museum of Russian cuisine, meeting with fairy-tale heroes, practical acquaintance with the device and operation of this Russian stove, lunch – tasting of old dishes, work of the guide.