Cassis and soda is a popular drink.

While she had obeyed him, smiling sweetly all the time, she had nursed a growing resentment of what she called his Latin American macho attitude. To confound the problem, his mother, who lived with them on and off, was described by the wife as being as domineering as her son.

But just then, they heard a swack and a man cried, “Ouch!”

The dish most closely associated with Siberia is pelmeni, meat-filled dumplings. In Siberia, pelmeni are traditionally filled with horse meat and are served with vinegar.