Eight months after Russia’s seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, John Warren told a geographical-society conference in Moscow that he would use his culinary travel show on Russia’s national NTV network to help Russians “see their country.”
“I will do my part,” Warren, a British citizen who made a name for himself in Moscow producing craft sausages for local expatriates, told the November 2014 conference that included President Vladimir Putin, who praised Warren’s Russian as “completely without an accent.”
