
Taste of the North

Former cook revives native Arctic cuisine
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The idea came to Andrey Anikiyev in Latvia, where the chef collected the ingredients for future dishes in the forest. This approach turned out to be close to the Russian: he decided to replace Italian pasta and Japanese sushi in his native Arhangelsk ...

Norilsk residents developed Arctic gastronomic tourism concept
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The educational track is dedicated to building effective communication, restaurant business trends, lean manufacturing, promotion tools, staff search and motivation, financial and tax accounting. Additional vocational education is organized within the Norilsk Development Agency (NDA) on the gastronomic industry transformation. Classes are conducted by well-known ...

Russian scientists prepare canned stingray and Arctic algae jam
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Yulia Shokina, professor of the Food Production Technologies department at the Murmansk State Technological University, spoke about canned stingray foods enriched with chondroitin sulfate. Stingray is generally by-catch of cod or haddock and is not processed in any way, although it can account for ...

Original northern ice-cream made in Norilsk
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Ice-cream is not a banal confectionery sweetness: it can include real northern ingredients: local berries and even meat. This year, at city holidays, Norilsk residents could try something like this - with venison, tundra berries and coal-black Miners’ ice-cream. Interest in non-classical tastes has already been ...

Taimyr berries kissel applies for grant
#ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Taimyr berries drinks manufacturer participates in the competition for grants from the Arctic Resource Center foundation. The Taimyr community of indigenous peoples will use the grant to conduct an advertising campaign for their new jelly concentrate from northern berries. The Northern Brands competition is ...

«Much in Norilsk was revelation for us»
ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The Biologie restaurant chef, the red and green Michelin stars first owner in Russia, Ekaterina Alyohina, said that she took with her to Moscow not only incredible emotions, but also three boxes of northern delicacies: “As a chef, I discovered a lot of interesting products ...

Taimyr Salt gastronomic expedition ended in Norilsk
ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The program includes the construction of new housing, the modernization of urban infrastructure and the development of social facilities. New public spaces will appear in the city, a museum of modern art, among the objects of first importance - a new school in Oganer ...

They visited Nornickel’s mine and tasted miners’ ration
ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. Eminent Russian chefs and well-known bloggers visited the Medvezhiy Ruchey (Coal Brook) quarry and the Anhydrite mine, talked to the employees of the enterprises and drove the mining machines. “The Taimyr Salt fourth day began with a trip to the Anhydrite mine, where an underground ...

They swam in icy Yenisey and saw unique seaport
ARCTIC. #SIBERIA. THIS IS TAIMYR. The capital of Taimyr with a unique seaport is located 100 kilometers from Norilsk. The guests were given a tour about the city center, showed historical and ethnographic expositions of the Taimyr Museum of Local Lore. The gastro-expedition participants learned about the culture of the ...