Smoked eel and mystery meat kebab: a Russian food road trip
September 1, 2010
Last summer, food and drink writer Joshua M. Bernstein joined two friends in a rust-choked, exhaust-spewing, two-door 1994 Subaru Justy. They drove more than 8,000 miles — from London, through Russia, to Ulaanbaatar, where men eat heroic amounts of mutton and get blotto on fermented horse milk. This is their stomachs’ story.