Video: Americans try Estonian sweets for the first time
BuzzFeed had a few Americans try out Estonian sweets and candies. Watch their reaction…
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Estonian Cuisine
Jäääär represents modern Estonia in Berlin
In the big wide multicultural Berlin there is a place where you can order a kama-dessert or a coffee with Vana-Tallinn in Estonian. This place is a cozy Estonian coffee shop, art gallery and event venue opened in Brunnenviertel in October 2013 with the most intriguing name – Jäääär (meaning the “edge of ice” in
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A revolution in Estonian brewing
Worldwide, the production of beer has become the domain of multinational companies, and Estonia is no exception. The market share of the country’s largest breweries – A. Le Coq, Saku Õlletehas and Viru Õlu – is 90%. Yet recently Estonia has been witnessing something of a beer revolution, as many small producers have entered the
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Thea Tammeleht – bringing the Estonian marzipan making traditions to India
The destiny took an Estonian lady, Thea Tammeleht, from a leafy resort town of Pärnu to one of the largest cities on Earth, Mumbai, to produce and sell luxury marzipan candy in one of the most populous countries – India. Holding a master’s degree in special education and counselling, Tammeleht used to manage the local
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Old customs die hard – New York’s Estonian House organises a rosolje competition
Estonians are proud of their traditional dishes – the rye bread, potato salad, selection of meats, sausages, marinated fish, pickles. One dish which was historically never missing from a party table, is rosolje – a beetroot and potato salad. And wherever Estonians emigrated, they took the tradition of making rosolje with them. So it is
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An ode to verivorstid
Sappho gave us Ode to Aphrodite. Beethoven composed the musical setting for Ode to Joy. John Keats praised a songbird in Ode to a Nightingale. But seemingly nobody has paid poetic homage to those odd little Estonian verivorstid (blood sausages). And frankly, that’s a tragedy.* Traditionally the centrepiece of the Estonian Christmas Eve meal, verivorstid are
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American-Estonian couple opens a café named after Alo Mattiisen in Phoenix, Arizona
An American-Estonian couple, Steve Martinez and Hilja Hõlpus Martinez, has opened a little internet coffee house in the Phoenix suburb of Scottsdale, Arizona, USA. Called Alo café, it is named after the famous Estonian composer during the Singing Revolution, Alo Mattiisen. Both of Estonian heritage, but born in the US, it is a new challenge for
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Porridge, cabbage and dirt: understanding Estonian humour through food and film
Lisa and Kristen Dobbin are Estonian-Canadian sisters from Toronto. In 2012, they relocated to Tartu to try and become a little more like their Estonian grandmother. This is the second part in their series of articles, Lessons in Estonian culture for beginners. The first part can be found here and the third one here. We
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The Külmlaud – a guided tour
Andres Simonson, a first generation American of Estonian descent, gets you acquainted with the Estonian külmlaud or “cold table” buffet. As a first generation American of Estonian descent, I embrace all things Estonian. Well, almost everything. I still can’t do sült. For those unfamiliar, sült is an Estonian delicacy of jellied pork. You start by (and
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Japanese food from an Estonian perspective
The Japanese cuisine couldn’t be any more different from the Estonian one. Tomatoes and potatoes, which are a part of everyday meals in Estonia, are expensive like many other vegetables in Japan. In Estonia, and of course in most of the Western world, potatoes are a side dish, but in Japan they are viewed more
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