This post is the final post in The Culinary Diplomat’s Baltic series. For more posts, please search using The Baltic States category. Surprisingly to an outsider, I found in the Baltic States an abundance of vegetarian and vegan products, as well as dishes, and restaurants dedicated to or catering to alternative dining preferences (vegetarian, vegan, raw, paleo, low-carbohydrate,…
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It’s all about beets in the Baltics – and beyond
Beets are by far my favorite root vegetable – and that’s even with stiff competition from sweet potatoes. It is one food trend in recent years that I will stand behind, yet I am one of those weirdos that has loved beets long before the beet salad became a given (next to Brussels sprouts and…
Pop-Tarts: Hate to love them or love to hate them?
Another food fad remake struck the foodie world in the past few years: The often reviled Pop-Tart, an American breakfast icon, has experienced a renaissance of sorts in bakeries and restaurants. In the Washington, D.C. area, knowing foodies sample homemade “poptarts” at Ted’s Bulletin and Northside Social, among other places. These eateries have put their own…
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