Timeline
2012
2011
December 15th Not my perestroika: Shades of might have beens October 3rd The Soviet Samovar! First issue! Wednesday! September 26th Live, in the kitchen, from Moscow September 21st Hiding out in the ‘burbs August 4th When all is fleeting anyway, food becomes everything (Immigrant Decor Part 5) July 27th The weight of an English chesterfield (Immigrant Decor Part 4) July 26th Hindu gods, the Alberta way (Immigrant Decor Part 3) July 15th A suitcase full of matroyshkas and salami (Immigrant Decor Part 2) July 13th The faux Persian rug, crowning glory of every Russian home (Immigrant Decor Part 1) June 28th Immigrant household decor: Your stories wanted! June 23rd Do Russian and Soviet memorabilia an immigrant make? June 18th An open letter on so-called parenting privilege June 9th A Russian primer on making journalists irrelevant June 8th The Big Jewcy 2011 – I’ve been listified June 6th On Russian tchotchkes and Soviet design May 26th Tech blogs learn from women’s magazines May 23rd Chernobyl, 25 years and counting May 20th Outsourcing the Rumour Mill May 9th Soviet Georgian soup is reclaimed as Shabbat meal April 11th Monday Links – The Bill Cosby is a genius edition April 10th Still keeping your coffee in the freezer? Tut, tut April 4th Monday Links – The some people have real problems and some people have baby carrots edition March 31st In which I am immersed in Russian music but would have preferred herring March 28th Monday Links – Russia loves Raymond, nobody loves cannibalism edition March 25th Radio days of the revolution: Goodbye Soviet Russia, hello North Korea March 21st Monday links – The super Soviet, super Jew-y edition February 24th The digital afterlife and the lies we’ll leave behind February 23rd The revolution is not being tweeted February 21st Monday Links – Socialist Cuba beats out Park Slope Food Co-op edition February 16th So much to envy: Reading about North Korea February 14th Monday Links – The skinny cans for skinny gals edition February 9th Study says… “Blame mom!” February 6th Shteyngart on, what else, Russia February 3rd Ok, so I don’t talk about current events so much… February 1st Or are some things off-limits to games? January 31st Summer camp is for history games (mud optional) January 30th Our multiplying technological selves January 29th Cossack dance-off, circa 1941
2010
November 29th Lego and Monopoly: What’s history got to do with it? November 25th Blah, blah, authenticity, blah, blah, shtetl November 18th On not bridging gaps between old and new November 9th A good old US penny October 28th Technology, activism, and the rest of the world September 23rd A Q&A on the Soviet Jewry movement with Gal Beckerman September 20th Retro research: Squinting, scanning, scrolling September 9th Go Soviet at the CNE August 31st Refusenik Screening Part 4: The Dinner, or Sausage Nostalgia August 28th Soviet! History! Music! Video! Tetris! August 27th Twitter highlights the banal in food August 24th No frills, but plenty of multiculturalism August 20th Sometimes, a chocolate bar is just a chocolate bar August 18th Refusenik Screening Part 3: We Weren’t All Refuseniks August 17th Refusenik Screening Part 2: The Rescuers and the Rescued August 9th Only Bad Mommies Take Vacations August 3rd Refusenik Screening Part 1: Defining Moments July 31st Naming and shaming sexual harassers at work: yay or nay? July 24th Links (or Letting Others Do the Thinking) July 23rd Circumcision and the irrational moments of life July 9th And then my computer died… June 23rd The future: Live it now on Twitter June 21st Soviet Jewry movement in New York Times June 18th Food police: Whither the voice of reason? June 17th Lithuania equates communism with Nazism June 16th Professional kitchens get gentrified while foodies pretend to be ordinary folk June 11th From Russia to Israel and back (to Siberia) again June 10th Don’t worry, we’ve got our best minds on it! June 9th Dictator Baby photo series explores nature of evil and motherhood June 3rd New film: Soviet Jews in Minnesota June 2nd Soviet gulags just not sexy enough for the zeitgeist May 20th Caffeinated conspiracies and indie economics (2) May 11th Women! Chefs! Sexism! May 10th Hating Mother’s Day is as damaging as sentimentalizing it May 2nd Caffeinated conspiracies and indie economics (1) April 30th Holocaust meets social media April 29th On hyphenated identities, poetic and otherwise April 26th Behold the cake ball, the new cupcake April 21st Edible authenticity puts class politics on the plate April 19th Three generations, three languages: A former refusenik on language and identity April 14th Dear food peeps, you’re out of control April 9th Crimes against language: Food gets itself a manly ‘tude April 5th Roman Vishniac’s photography: The impoverished life that wasn’t quite March 24th The kitchen-bot revolution 2—And a robo-chef in every kitchen March 18th The kitchen-bot revolution 1—this ain’t your mama’s kitchen March 1st Soviet and Jewish and stateless February 8th Typing ourselves into the future
