First, an FYI: Cookery Book Friday is moving to Mondays. I'm finding I need the weekend to scour the book, shop for the recipe and then make it. So look for the next cookbook review in a couple days.

Second, my favorite new bread: Stolichniy Bread, made by a local bakery called, awesomely, Fairy Tale Bakery. I found it on the shelves at Jons, a local supermarket that carries a lot of international groceries. Some people are skeeved out by the weird pig parts and unfamiliar brands at Jons, but I like it. And I like Stolichniy bread even more -- dark, chewy and sour, it's good toasted and buttered or made into a sandwich with cheese, avocado and tomato.

I can't find anything about Stolichniy bread on the internet -- actually, the first Google result is the above picture, which I posted on Flickr yesterday -- so I think it's an invention of the Fairy Tale Bakery. There is some sort of salad called Stolichniy...but what does "Stolichniy" mean? I'm hoping my sister's Russian boyfriend can help solve this mystery. His name is Sergey. If someone named Sergey can't help, I'm afraid no one can.