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Moscow melt: Russia’s mozzarella-makers

6 mins | Apr 29, 2020

“Even without closed borders, I’d like to think my mozzarella could win in a fair fight.” Sanctions in Russia threatened to limit a fast-expanding culinary scene in 2014 until local entrepreneurs decided to get to work. Moscow-based journalist Joshua Yaffa, writing in 1843 Magazine, goes in search of some home-produced Russian mozzarella. Could it taste better than the Italian one?

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