BuzzFeed had a few Americans try out Estonian sweets and candies. Watch their reaction… Photo: Laima zefirs (incidentally actually produced by a Latvian company, but zefirs have always been popular in Estonia).
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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
Old customs die hard – New York’s Estonian House organises a rosolje competition Read More »
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 …
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 …
American-Estonian couple opens a café named after Alo Mattiisen in Phoenix, Arizona Read More »
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 …
Porridge, cabbage and dirt: understanding Estonian humour through food and film Read More »
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 …
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 …