It is always interesting to experience what the New Year celebrations are for other countries and tonite I was privileged to witness this First hand in Moscow.
Essential ingredients of every new years celebrations is food and in Moscow this is no different. There is plenty of caviar, fresh salmon, and all types of sliced meat and plenty of salads cos its seems that the starter translates to salad ! The most popular version is Olivier, which sounds French but is sold in France under the name…Russian salad. Mayonnaise, ham, peas etc are part of it and there is also Haring in a coat basically beetroot, with onions, mashed potatoes, some cheese and haring, it looks like a pie gone wrong but it tastes good.
Desserts are not really a Russian thing and they seem to be addicted to Clementine’s when and where ever you look they are eating the small sister of the orange!
By the way, the caviar is really nice and no longer black since that is illegal and its orange now! What a good colour !
In terms of the working force it seems that everything closes at 20.00 in the evening and people start preparing than or go for a walk. The expedition went for a walk and the Kremlin and Red Square was nicely decorated but blocked since a tiny important man was recording its New Years speech !
The streets are virtually empty and crossing the street has finally become childsplay!
Towards 22.00 we started our assault on the salads and other tasty goods with a glass of white wine and towards 24.00 the Brut Imperial Rose of Moet and Chandon was opened to start the year in style! Fireworks have been there the whole day and funnily enough its not legal to light them after 24.00. Knowing the average Russian person, this will not be easy to prevent and even I joined it the fun.
2007 is gone, welcome 2008 ! 365 days to digest the food and the drinks before we will do it all over again !
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