
Taste of the North

Norilsk residents took part in Krasnoyarsk gastroforum
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. More than 50 experts, restaurateurs, chefs, scientists and more than a thousand listeners from 43 cities of Russia and three countries took part in the Gastro Forum 2024 at the Siberian Federal University’s Gastronomy Institute site. With the support of the Norilsk Development Agency ...

Krasnoyarsk opened Taigastro again
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Taigastro gastronomic festival started in Russia on August 1, with 241 restaurants from different regions of the country taking part. The main goal of the festival is to get consumers acquainted with the local cuisine of cities and regions, said festival producer Diana ...

Cooks prepared miner’s lunch underground in Arctic
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In one of the oldest mines in the Arctic, Kaula-Kotselvaara, where industrial activity stopped in 2023, cooks prepared an industrial lunch for the miners. The requirement was that the dishes had to consist only of local products of Arctic cuisine, of long conservation period, and ...

Gourmets to gather on Putorana plateau
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. At the end of summer, the first ever gastronomic festival Wild Dinners will be held on the Putorana plateau. Its organizer Hayam Aminov spoke about the event’s features. As Aminov said in the interview with TASS, four chefs from different regions of Russia will take ...

Coffee with venison and Arctic ice cream got connoisseurs at SPIEF
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The gastronomic desserts developers from Norilsk have been participating in the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF) for several years and are pleased to note that in St. Petersburg they are recognized at forums of this level. This time two new Norilsk brands - ...

Pilaf day held at Copper plant
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. In two 120-liter cauldrons they got about 500 servings of real Uzbek pilaf, prepared according to all the rules. Moscow chef and blogger Alisher Halilov spoke about the secrets and intricacies of preparing pilaf and shared his tricks. “In Uzbekistan, pilaf is prepared both on weekdays ...

Solyanka is New Year holidays’ best dish
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The solyanka soup is a traditional New Year’s dish, because it is satisfying, beautiful, rich and is often prepared from what is left over from the New Year’s table. Andrey Raduntsev, a native Norilsk resident, knows how important such a simple but tasty hot ...

Norilskgazprom employees competed in Gourmet’s Secret
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The sixteenth culinary competition Gourmet’s Secret – 2023 among Norilskgazprom employees took place in Norilsk. This year, 23 employees of the company competed in the gastronomic duel, offering 33 culinary delights to the jury and the event guests. A commission of nine people - the ...

Norilsk firefighter cooked smoky maracas
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The gastro show’s author and host Anton Zaitsev invited a man who knows how to handle fire and even tame it - a firefighter with 30 years of experience from Norilsk Oleg Pilyugin. He shared a recipe for chicken sticks with vegetables, mushrooms and ...