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I am a good cook
What’s your favorite thing to cook? One of misconception of people diagnosed with bipolar disorder is that we are disorganized and unpredictable. This is a lie. Despite being labelled as ‘bipolar’ I am very well organised and quite predictable. I lived in four different countries, and each move was well planned and organised. I always… Continue reading
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One Russian New Year
Due to the absence of most grocery products in the 1990s in Russia, people had to develop quite remarkable culinary skills. One had to be truly inventive in order to come up with any interesting dishes, besides a piece of bread with butter (and even butter was at some point totally unavailable in the shops).… Continue reading
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Food, glorious food!
What are your family’s top 3 favorite meals? Today’s prompt by WordPress is to name my top three favorite family meals. It’s difficult to answer this question, as I have many favorite dishes! I am a big foodie in life. I consider food as one of the main pleasures in life! I cook everyday something… Continue reading
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Belgium and her delicious food
Let’s stay in Brussels for a while and explore little bit of Belgium. How do we judge a country? How do we make of it a definite impression? What is it what comes on our mind when we think of our travels to a particular destination? Architecture? Museums? People? And how do we remember a… Continue reading
About Me
I am a doctor of philosophy, a university lecturer, and a lover of cats, fine wine, dancing, theatre, and human eccentricity. I was born in the Soviet Union (Moscow). I am fluent in four languages, and have spent all my adult life studying (except from 18 to 19) working and living throughout Western Europe. Despite a surname-Netchitailova- that translates from Russian into English as “unreadable”, my greatest passions in life are reading and writing. My personal struggles have made me appreciate the manifestations of weirdness that exist everywhere.