If Your say about Moscow, You're probably right, but Moscow is not indicative.
I was talking about St Petersburg, of course (cultural capital!)

They come home only to sleap and they don't have a time for cooking. So they prefere to cook a meal easy to make or not to cook at all.
Not true. We cook. We love to cook.

As for our family we eat щи and борщ almost everyday.
've been to Novgorod - nice town, very advanced, broadband in every home I visited. So what makes you lot so stuck-in-the-mud foodwise? Borsch, my foot. My grandmother doesn't remember the last time she had borsch and she's a very culinarilly frum lady. Do you know that beets make you pee red?

A potato cooked in different ways is really the most popular modern national food.
Do you mean them horrible food kiosks that have been mushrooming all over the city? Those are nothing but rat poison outlets. You don't want to know what goes into the sauce

It is also called "второй хлеб".
Is this some sort of idiom or something? Spuds called "second bread"? What's this supposed to mean?

What? Very interesting phrase. Is this proverb? I wonder what does it means?
It means I don't care what the people eat in the country. As a city dweller I'm a snob (I'm joking, of course)