Gingerbread is an holiday staple that's been around for centuries. It also happened to include a rather surprising ingredient in some of its earliest forms.

For many centuries the town of Vyazma (about 200 km to west of Moscow) was famous for its main edible delight- the ‘Vyazma pryanik’. or gingerbread - the history of which dates to the 17th century.

Kovrizhka is a much bigger version of pryanik (gingerbread), with a size that can reach up to 1.5 m2 and 10 centimeters high! Its unusually large size allows for ease of transportation and helps to ...

It is that time of the year when houses smell of gingerbread, candies and icing and the chefs in the British Royal Family’s kitchens could not be left behind as they come together to bring fancy ...