smetannik

More a café masquerading as a restaurant, Mari Vanna opens for lunch, does afternoon tea and continues until the last mouthful of smetannik (sour cream cake) has been consumed at dinner.

2012, “Mari Vanna”, in The Good Food Guide 2013, London: Which?, →ISBN, “London” section, page 152, column 1

The bakery offers fresh khachapuri, a Georgian cheese bread, and smetannik, a Russian sour cream cake.

2014 April 18, Taryn Luna, “Small, independent grocers bracing for big competition”, in The Boston Globe, volume 285, number 108, Boston, Mass., →ISSN, →OCLC, page B7, column 4

A small New York company is behind the indulgent smetannik, or sour cream cake.

2015 August 19–26, Alice Levitt, “Crumbs”, in Pamela Polston, Paula Routly, editors, Seven Days, volume 20, number 50, Burlington, Vt.: Da Capo Publishing Inc., →OCLC, “Side Dishes” section, page 45, column 1

You’ll see pools of kefir, sbiten, kvass, or vzvar in cavities of rocks, borscht and ukha swelling up in tree stumps, stuffed blintzes and pierogi mushrooming in flower clusters or out of tree bark or hanging from leaves, and cream-covered smetannik adorning trees like snow.

2024, Colleen Houck, “Beware of the Goat from Its Front Side, of the Horse from Its Back Side, and a Monk from Any Side”, in Tiger’s Tale, Ashland, Ore.: Blackstone Publishing, →ISBN