On this trip, I rediscovered Lithuanian food. I recalled everything I liked many years ago, and we made sure never to eat at the same place twice, and try different foods each time.
On the first day, there were zeppelins and Lithuanian kvass, and this kvass was so incredibly good, that we never skipped it:). The one which we tried in the first place was the best though.
Zemaiciu was another thing I had very fond memories of, as well as other kinds of potatoe-based foods.
I even tried potatoes pancakes with pig ears! And Boris tried potatoes and pork sausageForgot this dessert nameFinally got zemaiciu on the last day
And coffee! I believe Lithuanians are incapable of making coffee worse than excellent! Anywhere we stopped for coffee, I didn’t even try to ask for cappuccino or espresso, or whatever specialty coffee. You just ask for coffee, and get something amazing!
And the cakes 🙂
There was a chocolate shop very close to our hotel, and that was the only place where we stopped more than once :). I purchased several boxes to take home, and I never repeated one kind twice, and still I think there were lots of kinds of chocolate left out :). This one, I got for Boris and I – we ate some together in Helsinki and divided the rest 🙂
My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996.
I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future.
I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life.
As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.
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