| They might have taken lunch at the local stolovaya but otherwise they cooked at home. |
| Of course workers' wives were still expected to make copious dinners in the evenings, bringing them back to old-fashioned family and gender roles, but the stolovaya were nonetheless an idealistic initiative. |
| But there's one element of Russian food infrastructure that functions well and should be exported all over the world – those stolovaya. |
| The stolovaya was filling up with workmen, who had to deposit baskets of tools as well as many layers of outer garments. |
| In the largely intact stolovaya, or canteen, the kitchens had rusting cookers. |
| There was no incentive to remain in the stolovaya after eating. |
