Meaning of bifshtek | Babel Free

Definitions

A Russian ground meat dish, often made from beef, consisting of minced meat mixed with various ingredients such as onions, spices, and sometimes breadcrumbs or eggs, shaped into patties or cutlets and pan-fried or baked.

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Examples

“Here iss the dinner! There iss no truffles—there iss no goose—there iss no fish—but we have nice bifshteks!”

““Russian food is satisfactory but lacks variety,[”] notes the new expanded edition of Pan American World Airways” travel booklet “New Horizons.” “Meats, including ‘bifshtek’ are often tough and greasy, vegetables overcooked,” it points out.”

“Now, about your restaurants, I don’t relish the idea of paying 30 or 40 rubles for greasy bifshtek and overcooked vegetables.”

“The food is flavorful but often on the heavy side. Meats, including “Bifshtek,” and vegetables are cooked long.”

“Blood donors were not lacking: all the physicists “on duty” were ready to volunteer, and several whose blood group was the same as Landau’s had been selected and advised to eat much bifshtek.”

“Scan the menu in a Moscow restaurant, any Moscow restaurant—any restaurant in any Russian city: languette, entrecote, schnitzel, bifshteck,^([sic]) shashlyk. This is a Russian restaurant?”

“Russian bifshteks are actually thin, boneless affairs that more resemble a French entrecote than an American sirloin or T-bone.”

“A contribution to a wall newspaper of which I was an editor in our sector poked fun at the never-changing menu in the school cafeteria. It centred on the various and devious methods used in serving us hamburger. One time it would be called hamburger, another time bifshtek, then cutlet, and sneakiest of all, schnitzel—the only difference among them was usually only in their shape or whether bread crumbs had been used.”

“No longer do you need to be content with soggy refried potatoes or vinegary cabbage salad accompanying a tough bifshtek — which is the standard fare at most Intourist hotels and official restaurants.”

“Restaurants still serve as a mainstay of nightlife, with diners passing over their bifshteks for another slammer of vodka and a lurch around the floor to a jackhammer Casio-beat.”

“The Hotel Intourist has a lively banquet hall with tasty bifshtek and potatoes, and mushroom-stuffed egg appetisers; a full meal costs US$4 to US$5.”

“Bifshteks (not to be confused with beef steaks) also used minced meat, but these were larger and had no breadcrumb coating.”

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