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Soviet canteen! Practically anyone under the age of 30 understands what it means. Beginning from semolina with clots in kindergarten, biscuits and cakes at

school, student canteen (any joy, there may be tainted cutlets or nourishing and delicious food) and rather good canteen at the workplace.

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When you read about what goes into the consumer's basket, you do not take the quantity you see the way you do when you see it on the photos. The creators of this project used electronic scales to show how it all looks like in minimum quantity. From this it comes out unusual. In the different regions of Russia, the average consumer basket

varies. For example in 2011, the Government of Sverdlovsk region of the I quarter of 2011 set a living wage at a level of US$213 per capita. These include: food - US$82, non-food items - US$32, services - US$84, mandatory payments and fees at US$15. The officiais find this to be sufficient.

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In Japan they have bento boxes, in

Russia they have… you decide.

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During World War II USA has helped great deal to the armies of the allies in every possible way, including sending the machinery and weapons according the so called "land lease" agreement. We have today one of the most exotic parts of this cooperation, that was very appreciated by Russian soldiers and was famous long after the war was over. This exotic American give away was a

production of a special canned pork stew designated to Russian troops and prepared according to the Russian traditional recipe. Russian soldiers are not used to those capitalistic foods you might supply us, bring us "The Tushonka", this might was in minds of Russian generals who asked American government to send this special food to the front lines.

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Recently they have cancelled strict certification for food products they had before in place in Russia. Some think that's a cool move - before you even couldn't sell a cookie you bake without getting it certified which involved some heavy visits to authorities and getting many time and efforts wasted. So now it should be easier for farmers and food producers to

market their stuff. But, as it always happens a rise of a "dark" entrepreneurship. This one particular company was getting a lot of chicken that was already not suitable to be sold and used some chemicals injections to give it an attractive look. They say it is not the only company but there are plenty of such using those "technologies".

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It became rather difficult to find good, tasty and really quality bread in big cities. Let's satisfy our curiosity and visit a

bread-baking plant in Pavlovsky Posad, which is a small town 70 km far from Moscow, to find out how real Russian bread is baked.

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There is one sacred rule in cooking: to make a delicious and healthy dish you need to cook it with good spirits on. And one more thing

that is never too many. This is creativity and if you add several spoons of that to your recipe it won’t do any harm at all.

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A Russian factory producing two types of food - Russian raviolli with meat called "pelmeni" and Russian variations of cakes and sweets. They still make those raviollis by hand as

you might see on those photos, probably it's cheaper than getting the manufacturing line do this, or maybe they sell it like "hand made organic" or something.