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1. A Recipe for Peace

On Gogol, how culture and help ease the spirit, and a treasured Ukrainian recipe.

Tags: cake, ukraine
2. Message in a Bottle, Moscow Canal Blockage, and Mother of 22

In this week's Odder News, the most amazing cakes you have ever seen, Russia's Suez Canal moment, and how do 100 kids sound?

Tags: dessert, cake, novosibirsk, georgia, babies, canal, moscow, samara
3. A Crumble for All Seasons

A crumble cake in Russia is something like banana bread in the US – the varieties are endless, and every avid baker has her “grandmother’s recipe” in their repertoire.

Tags: cake
4. From MMA to Crème Brûlée

When an injury takes an MMA fighter out of the cage, he decides to take his talents into the kitchen instead. 

Tags: baking, bakery, athletics, athletes, cake, cooking, cheese
5. A Soviet Bake-Off and Blini

Julia Frey's parents, Victor and Victoria, created beautiful feasts in the Soviet times. For Victor, it meant getting cake equipment tailor-made and becoming the best baker in town. For Victoria, it was cooking a Russian and Ukranian storm. Julia cooks, bakes and reminisces about her "great childhood" in London.

Tags: soviet union, cake, blini, russians in london, russian food, food stories
6. Taste of the Holidays

For several generations of Russians, few things signal Christmas and New Year’s better than tangerines. So we offer a delicious holiday cake built around this fruit.

Tags: soviet era, abkhazia, cake
7. A Celebratory Cake

А фestive Napoleon Cake that is plenty complex to offer lots of stress baking relief.

Tags: cake, napoleon
8. Blast from the Past

Paul Robeson, the American singer and actor and a political activist, had a cake named after him in Russia.

Tags: race, recipe, cake, robeson
9. The Biggest Cheesecake, The Artsiest Robot, and The Spaciest Station

A record-breaking cake, a robot breaking (conceptions of) art, and a space station breaking international boundaries. Plus, flying cars and how to live on Mars.

Tags: Mars, Roscosmos, space, robot, cake, Stavropol, Russia
By Alice E.M. Underwood

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