From Russia, With Taste

Shopping and joking at Nadia's European Market with Yakov Smirnoff. (Plus bonus photos.)
By Jeff Houghton
Photos by Kevin O'Riley


Yakov explains to Jeff the finer points of caviar.

I arrive at Nadia’s European Market and Yakov Smirnoff greets me with a hug-hello. He’s affectionate like that. It’s comforting because this was no regular trip to the grocery store. It is my first time going to a Russian grocery store and my first time going to any grocery store with the famous Russian comedian. Before we can make it inside, a woman with her children stops Yakov for a picture, and he gladly obliges. This is not that out of the ordinary for Yakov. Click here to read the rest of the story.