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Vanessa Anderson is the breeder Goblin, on the mission, to explore grocery stores in the neighborhood across South California.
If the valley were an ocean and it is as large as one, then his sunken treasure can certainly be found in the mass social of his Russian Grobery business.
There are almonds instead of dried cherries and splipts, the individually packaged chocolates. In shadows from Violet and Vermilion, they glitter like increases of light, each of which has to tell a wrapper and a stories that have occurred.
My Russian liquid begins and ends with “cheers”, but happiness for me is iconography in the Russian plate gate no stranger. For example, take Odessa Greery in Valley Village. Herea was able to occupy a children's picture book by simply walking through the corridors. Butter, cookies, condensed milk, every character sets a mascot.
The mass section is no exception. The folktalas on the chocolate packaging have been introduced, but the tradition that they created -and for those who grew up have been created is possibly only a folk amount.
“Little Red Riding Hood is the sweets we had as children.” Tatiana Rosinskaya says from every post behind the cold case, each face frame through bunches of piroshki and brick made of salt -hardened harbor. She refers to a wafer covered with chocolate with the adult heroine, which can be seen prominently on the front.
Golden Cockerel Pralines in Odessa Grobery in Valley Village, California.
(Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)
Consider the golden cockerel, an orange chocolate with a dark chocolate glaze, inspired by Alexander Puschkins, poem of the same name.
“This is a fairy tale that is a painting,” says Shopper Sveta (who preferred only to specify her first name) when she puts a blue conference out of the stack and keeps it between all elegant fingernails. A tiny painting of four bears on the forest. “Shishkin painted that,” she says, refers to the famous painting “Tomorrow in a pine forest” by Ivan Shishkin and Constantine Savitsky. You can see the similaarlities, but in the reproduced candy version The Bears Fuller, fluffy and playful.
The Bulk chocolate containers in Odessa Grobery in Valley Village show a lot of sweets whose wrapper are inspired by fairy tales and folk art. (Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)
Rosinskaya comes from Saratov, Russia, and is reminiscent of a nearby candy factory in Samara. With regard to candy manufacturers, every clearest memory of красны keep or “Red October”, which is involved in Moscow, is Wonka values.
Red October is responsible for a number of delicacies, none more famous than Alenka.
The company was initially created when the company won a contract for the Soviet government in the 1960s to create an affordable milk chocolate that was easily reproduced for the masses and is more recognized for packaging than for its taste. His blue -eyed baby was in a headscarf was Later revealed as Elena Gerinas Whose father Aleksandr took the photo in 1962. Gerinas lost a legal dispute to seek compensation for the rights to the picture that is still used today.
Alenka Candies' characteristic blue -eyed baby, which is wrapped in a headscarf, is an iconic Russian sweets from the 1960s. The face on the wrapper was later unveiled as Elena Gerinas, whose father was every photo.
(Juliana Yamada / Los Angeles Times)
Not all Groggery transactions in the Russian enclave of the valley are exclusively Russian, and that applies to their patrons. Families from all over the former Soviet Union – Uzketan, Ukrainian, Georgian and Armenian – Shopping at Odessa, which is named after a city in Ukraine.
The sweets do not follow more suitable than hazelnut praline Kara-Kum, which is named after the desert and covers 70% of the Turkmenistan. On the packaging, five camels drive in the Golden Sonne Inge Oblivion.
Hazelnut Praline Kara-Kum is named after the wide Turkmenistan. The packaging is decorated with camels.
(Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times)
“We left who threw us out,” says Sveta when we were asked if they were coming to America from Uzbekistan.
“It also started in Ukraine, they said Russian to Russia to Israel, Armenians go to Armenia. We lived in a very international city, many different types of people.”
These sweets also consider nostalgia to be the first generation, says Bella Susis. She was born in Chicago as the son of the Ukrainian parents, and Batonchik, a chocolate role with milk powder and crushed wafers, was a favorite in the house. She takes one from the shelf and smiles like an old friend.
“To be honest, they are not my favorite sweeties.” But I like to eat them because they help me to understand my father's experience a little. “
“I think many of these illustrations should serve a kind of escapism.
“Yes,” replies Bella. “They run in history and it increases the chocolate that itself is not rich or luxurious.”
If you hold up a golden cockerel, she adds: “When we grow up, my parents eat the sweets -insoles that they then have
(Juliana Yamada/Los Angeles Times)
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