The particularities of nutrition of Siberian people have been formed thanks to ancient traditions and bleak climate. People preferred dairy products, vegetables, and greens in summer and meat dishes with pickles in winter. They treated food with care and solicitude. All the products were spent with a great thriftiness, especially in spring. Due to the huge size of the country, almost limitless natural resources, a surplus of free land, and the absence of serfdom, life in the wilderness of Siberia was always more free, happier, and more prosperous than life in European Russia. Although every family possessed hunting guns and traps, game was not central to the Siberian diet. Food was stewed, boiled, or baked in a Russian oven or fried in oil or drawn butter. Because of the political freedom and abundant local and foreign food products, Siberian cuisine originated as a rich mixture of European and aboriginal traditions.
Posted on: Fri, 16 Jan 2015 10:34:52 +0000