Eating Little Russia, Part 2: Getting Greasy with Ukranian and Uzbek

January 26, 2011

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="500" caption="Welcome to Brighton Beach"][/caption] This is part two of our detailed exploration of the traditionally Russian/Eastern European neighborhood of Brighton Beach in Brooklyn. Restaurants mentioned in this post: 1) Varenichnaya (Ukrainian) 3086 Brighton 2nd St (between Brighton Beach Ave & Brightwater Ct) Brooklyn, NY 11235 (718) 332-9797 2) Kebeer (Uzbek) 1003 […]

Tagged as: brightonbeach, brooklyn, caviar, dumplings, markets, motb, pelmeni, restauransts, russia, russian

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Eating Little Russia, Part 1: Exploring Glechik

January 20, 2011

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="Pretty Pocherovok"][/caption] It was about 18 months ago that I started this site. I remember saying then that “I’m not familiar with West Indian culture at all.” I know a good deal more about West Indian food and culture now, to the point where I’m comfortable enough to show you how […]

Tagged as: borscht, brightonbeach, brooklyn, Food, kompot, pelmeni, russian

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Ear Breads, Get in my Face (AKA, Consider the Pel’meni).

January 12, 2011

What I would like to do now is present you with a well-researched, link-filled essay on the history of this humble dish called Pel’meni, a Russian dumpling relative of the equally beloved Polish pierogi or the Ukranian vareniki. However, the combination of a blizzard and a big work event this week mean I don’t have […]

Tagged as: brightonbeach, brooklyn, dumplings, mouthoftheborder, pelmeni, Restaurants, russian, siberian, ukranian

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A Victory for the Neighborhood: Brooklyn Victory Garden

January 10, 2011

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Inside Brooklyn Victory Garden"][/caption] Brooklyn Victory Garden is a food lover’s dream mini-market – the tiny shop sells only sustainable meats and dairy and all their packaged goods come from producers right here in New York City or from a little further afield in New England. I’m a proud resident of […]

Tagged as: brooklyn, brooklynvictorygarden, clintonhill, entrepreneur, localbusiness

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The Great Egg Tart Tasting Blizzard Adventure of 2010

January 5, 2011

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="263" caption="Exit/entrance from the C train at Canal St. "][/caption] Being crazy about food and ethnic food experiences in particular will lead you to do some weird things. Things like running through two feet of snow the day after a Christmas blizzard and dealing with subways that look like this to get […]

Tagged as: chinatown, chinese, congee, dantat, eggcustard, eggtart, foodwalk, manhattan, nyc, nyc. manhattan

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Mouth of the Border’s Top 20 Plates of 2010

January 2, 2011

Happy New Year, Mouth of the Border friends and family! As we closed out another year this week, we get to think about the best and worst in 2010 and what we want for 2011. I’m not gonna lie – 2011 is going to be a huge year for us here at MOTB. But before […]

Tagged as: Food, Recommendations, Restaurants, travel

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Russian Fooding in Brighton Beach – Take 2

December 30, 2010

Today I head out for my second food adventure of the week. I had entirely different post planned for you today, but technology isn’t co-operating, so I thought I’d share my agenda for the afternoon. I took one trip out to Brighton Beach last year, and this is my second trip out to prepare to […]

Tagged as: brightonbeach, brooklyn, georgian, mouthofheborder, russian, uzbek

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Crazy Holiday Lights & Italian Noms: Nosh Walking with Myra Alperson

December 27, 2010

As I mentioned last week, Mouth of the Border finished out a mini-tour of Italian fooding by taking a walking food tour in Dyker Heights with Myra Alperson of Nosh Walks. Nosh Walks are guided tours that will have you eating in many of the city’s well-known (and not so well-known) ethnic neighborhoods. On this […]

Tagged as: brooklyn, dykerheights, italian, krispypizzeria, myraalperson, noshwalk, noshwalks, raviolifair, tastypastry

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Happy Holidays from Mouth of the Border

December 23, 2010

I just wanted to say Happy Holidays to all Mouth of the Border readers who celebrate this month! It’s been a very special year, and it’s been an absolute joy to share it with all of you. I’m holding off on posting my next cooking video. With so many folks traveling, I wanted to save […]

Tagged as: dykerheights, holidays, mouthoftheborder, noshwalks

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What’d You Call Me? A Socialvore?

December 20, 2010

Below is my favorite pic of the month so far. I got to meet Marc of No Recipes and Blondie and Brownie of, well, Blondie and Brownie at Gourmet Live’s holiday bash on Dec. 7th at The Empire Room. I wanted to share with you that Gourmet Live has invited me to be one of […]

Tagged as: blogging, gourmet, gourmetlive, parties, socialvore

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