Mendeleev’s Birthday will be celebrated with milk mushrooms salad and honey cake with lingonberries at the House of Russian Cuisine

In honor of the 190th anniversary of our great compatriot, author of the periodic system of chemical elements, encyclopedic scientist, chemist, physicist, metrologist, economist, geologist, meteorologist, oilman Dmitry Mendeleev, Sibur Company is holding a gastronomic performance and lecture in the House of Russian Cuisine.

11:00 - 12:20 CHEESE MAKING

Masterclass

• Cheese making process (basic stages of cheese making technology)

• Lecture on cheese creation and the origin of artisanal cheese making culture

Presenting: Olesya Shevchuk - creator, co-founder and chief expert of the school of artisanal cheesemaking cheeseschool.ru, member of the International Guild of Cheese Makers, co-owner of Shevol restaurant-cheese factory and Rustic cheese shop.

12:30 - 13:30 SIBERIAN CUISINE

• Salad with milk mushrooms and Borodino bread

The hometown of Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev is the city of Tobolsk. The forests around Tobolsk are famous for a variety of mushrooms, including milk mushrooms. Dmitry Ivanovich himself said that since childhood he was an avid mushroom hunter and often went for mushrooms with his family.

• Honey cake with lingonberries

Honey cake is the most famous dessert of Russian cuisine. It first appeared in the kitchen of the imperial palace of Elizaveta Alexeevna, wife of Alexander I, about two hundred years ago.

Presented by Damir Khamzin, chef, menu developer of the Siberian cuisine restaurant in Tobolsk, Tyumen region.

February 3, 11:00 - 13:30, VDNH, House of Russian Cuisine