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03/03/06
It's Maslenitsa! Wake up and smell the blini.
Categories: Holidays
I am a little bit late on this, but this past week has been Maslenitsa in Russia, or blini week. It's a celebration of spring and fun and food, especially blini (thin buckwheat pancakes) and anything made with butter. It's also the week before Russian Orthodox Lent, so it's similar in some ways to Mardi Gras, but it has its own set of traditions and foods, and none of these involve beads or floats. Most of the traditions involve eating vast piles of blini.
Mmmm. Blini.
The word, Maslenitsa, comes from the Russian word for butter, maslo. Maslenitsa=butter... more
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