Arts and Life | Quinoa: A New Grain That Russians Have Been...

Arts and Life | Quinoa: A New Grain That Russians Have Been Eating for Centuries
By Pavel and Olga Syutkin

Cabbage soup, blini and pirogi are the symbols of Russian cuisine. But there is another contender for this title that might come as a surprise to foreigners: quinoa. For many centuries bread made with quinoa offered salvation from hunger.

It was also simply a very common food product.

Today in Russia there is a nationwide nostalgia for Soviet bread. The world’s best bread and ice cream are the symbols of the bygone “Soviet happiness” that our fellow citizens speak about with such longing — especially our fellow citizens born in the 1990s.

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