Gorky Park chicken

In the very early Nineties, just when it was all getting exciting, I lived in Moscow. I used to make this chicken and think I was being very fancy.

Years ago, in the last century, I went to live in Russia. My boyfriend back then was a journalist who was posted to Moscow just when it all got very exciting in 1990. The Berlin Wall had just come down, dissident Václav Havel began 1989 in a Czechoslovakian jail and ended it as the country’s president. In Moscow, there was a whole lane on the ring road…