I was in the most intereesting food store today [View All]

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On my way back from the hospital yesterday, I noticed to my right a store called "Siberia Food Market" and underneath the same name in Cyrillic. On the side was a big sign, "European Food". I was not in the right lane (with traffic) so I couldn't check it out, but I had to return today and made a point to be able to get to it.

Very interesting - lots of foods from all over. Plenty from Russia, also Azerbaijan, Tel Aviv, Greece, almost any other place you can think of. Fresh ethnic cheeses too, including "Amish Cheese", although by law those have to be made in the States.

Regrettably, I don't read Russian, or any of the Slavic languages, so I didn't know what half this stuff was, but some also had English translations as well, and then there were a few things that although I couldn't read them, it was obvious what they were. I can't even type out the names of some of the stuff because I don't have a Cyrillic font. But this is what I did get (just as a sampler, I'll certainly go back):

A Smoked Beef Salami from Tel Aviv

Something I thought was beef jerkey (much flatter and skinnier), but looking at the drawing on it of some northern person pulling a long fish out of an ice fishing hole, I'm guessing it's more of a fish jerkey. It also has a shipping sticker in English on it that says "Eviscerated dried vobla", and ingredients are listed as "Vobla, Salt".

Something that was in the cheese section that has a picture of a cow on it, I can't write the title but under it it says "Spread, Fresh Made" and the ingredients are listed as 50% butter, 30% soybean oil, 20% Kefir, Spread.

A packet of "Delicios Dry Squid", from Israel, ingredients "Squid, Salt, Sugar".

And finally, from Haifa, "Cold Smoked Butterfish" (present in a package like lox or smoked salmon is here). Ingredients: "Butterfish, salt, natural wood smoke".

I figure that'd get me started.

On edit: I forgot I also got a bottle of whole marinated tomatoes. That looked interesting. They are from the Ukraine. Ingredients "Tomatoes, vinegar, salt, sugar, garlic, dill, spices". Of course "spices" can cover a lot of territory.