28 сентября, 2022

My short trip to Kaspiysk was about abundant food and book shopping. When I arrived, at first I thought I’d find nothing in that seemingly …

Makhachkala impressed me with its variety of trendy Western-style coffee shops scattered all round the city centre. Not many of them serve Turkish coffee, prepared …

Featuring three ingredients — flour, sugar and butter — this traditional Dagestani dessert is commonly referred to as flour halva. It’s the first thing I …

Pirosmani, a two-storey Georgian restaurant in the centre of Makhachkala, was recommended to me well in advance of my trip to Dagestan last August. I …

A few years ago I read an article investigating the origins of ‘raf coffee’ and discovered that it’s apparently named after Rafael, or Raf, a …