Jambalaya! A beautiful, musical word. It may sound like a term from the art world, but it’s actually a dish that traces its roots back to the 16th, to the era of the colonization of America. The history of Jambalaya is as astonishing as this dish is delicious. It developed from several Europe traditions, and its list of ingredients was limited to the foodstuffs that the European discoverers of the New World could bring with them or find on the continents of North and South America. Thus, saffron – a key ingredient in paella – was replaced in these new locations with … tomatoes, which no one had ever tried in the Old World prior to the 16th century. Join us to cook Jambalaya, and we’ll also fill you in on some fascinating facts, as we’ll be cooking up a fest with Igor Vukolov. And we can also give our traditional guarantee – it’s going to be delicious. Because it’s the Geography of Taste on Russian Travel Guide.