Florence Fabricant is a food and wine writer. She writes the weekly Front Burner and Off the Menu columns, as well as the Pairings column, which appears alongside the monthly wine reviews. She has ...

While they may taste similar and be mistaken for each other, Russian blini and French crepes have differences in ingredients and cultural significance.

In Russia, to dine is to drink, and a restaurant is always a party. And in Portland, there's no food party quite like Kachka. An ode to her own nostalgia for her parents' Soviet memories, chef ...