If you were searching for a hot new culinary destination, looking to Reykjavik restaurants for an answer might not be your first instinct. It wasn't mine either but the Icelandic capital quickly proved me wrong. From freshly caught fish to fermented shark, from American burgers to the most delectable...

Bread, potatoes and cabbage. The fact that Soviet food shortages have not been forgotten by contemporary Russians is clearly visible through their grocery lists. But although they might not be the world's biggest experimenters, I can't bring myself to call the Russian way of cooking unimaginative. Who...