Gertrude's Menu and Performance press
(from the official VIVAT! website www.vivatfest.com)
Gertrude’s
The Baltimore Museum of Art, 10 Art Museum
Drive
410.889.3399
From February 19 until March 2, Gertrude's will celebrate Vivat! with a unique menu that combines Slavic and African American food for an unprecedented fusion of flavors. Enjoy fried chicken kiev with kale, cornbread blinis, and Russian cabbage rolls stuffed with rice and collard greens.
(from the Baltimore Sun, LIVE section, Thursday February 13, 2003)
Gertrude's Dinner Performance: Performance artists Joyce Scott and Lorraine Whittlesey present a satirical take on the combination of Slavic and African-American cuisines, 8 p.m. Feb 22 at the Baltimore Museum of Art. Authentic foods will be available at Gertrude's at the BMA Feb.19-March 2. 410-889-3399.
(Gertrude's special menu)
Gertrude's VIVAT! Slavic/African-American Menu
Inspired by the Common
Experiences of African-American & Slavic Cultures
as related by Baltimore Artists Joyce J. Scott &
Lorraine L. Whittlesey
Offered February 19 - March 2, 2003
Available as a Prix Fixe Menu...$35 per person ($29 vegetarian)
Soup
Beet Borscht...Cup
3.95 / Bowl 4.95
A traditional Russian soup with potato, served hot with sour
cream
Appetizers
Caviar Tasting...9.95
Russian caviars served with steamed red bliss & sweet
potatoes, with crème fraiche
Cornbread Blinis...7.95
Served with smoked fish, hardboiled eggs, chopped red onion, and
a roasted caper mayonnaise
Smoked Eggplant
"Caviar"...6.95
Served with black bread toast points
Entrees
Fried Chicken Kiev...14.95
Fried brest of chicken served with a kale-sweet potato hash and
herbed butter gravy
BBQ Beef Shashlik...16.95
Russian kabobs of grilled tenderloin tips laced with barbeque
sauce, served with dirty rice and apple-fennel coleslaw
Broiled Pastrimka...17.95
Artic char, a.k.a. "Russian lake trout" served with
collard greens, buckwheat Kasha, and a warm Stoli vodka-tomato
ketchup
Ukraine Golubtsi...12.95
Vegetarian cabbage rolls stuffed with rice, collard greens,
garlic & onions, served with a sweet & sour tomato sauce
Desserts
$5.00 each
Chocolate Babka
Served with a warm vanilla bodka-chocolate sauce
Plambin Slivochnyi
Housemade Russian ice cream studded with dried apricots, apples
& raisins
Cheese and Berry
Blintz
Drizzled with a blueberry coulis and served with sour cream
Medivnyk
Spices honey cake with candied pecans