Living Gluten-Free in Moscow

• New findings 10 years ago Hey everyone!For those who live near Kitai Gorod or have easy access to this area, I found a really nice "niche" supermarket, where everything is ostentatiously expensive, but that has a bunch of gluten-free items spread around the shop. I spotted a few types of gluten-free pasta, gluten-free...
• Northern Europe 10 years ago If you want to go abroad for a few days and are craving good gluten-free food, I'd recommend going to the Nordic countries. They are rather close to Russia - especially Finland: the Helsinki-Petersburg train takes 3.5 hours - and they are basically gluten-free heaven on Earth.I have been to Norway,...
• Airlines 10 years ago Two weeks ago, I flew Aeroflot to go to St Petersburg and had booked my ticket with a gluten-free snack not to have to bring my own food. And I really regretted it. The standard snack did not look delicious, but the gluten-free one was really, really badly done. Instead of the standard sandwich, I...
• Gluten-free cake 11 years ago I was strolling around the supermarket near work (Sedmoy kontinent at Paveletskaya) when I stumbled upon a Swedish gluten-free Daim's cake in the frozen section!Not only is it gluten-free but it's made with Almond and Daim's, two of my favourite flavours!Since I'm spending (western) Christmas here...
• Buckwheat pancakes 11 years ago Last week, I talked about the Russians' love for buckwheat and briefly mentioned buckwheat crepes. Well, last night, I finally had a chance to make them!I found buckwheat flour in the massive Perekrestok (previously Karusel) in Metropolis (metro Voykovskaya); it's called мука гарнец...

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