Location/Direction adverbs in English and Russian

[noser.livejournal.com]

Russian and English happen to have a very similar system of adverbs for describing locations and directions (thx to ataltane for pointing this out. Hey, both languages are Indo-European, aren't they). Unfortunately, with the (ongoing? :) simplification of English many of those adverbs became archaic, with the simple here, there and where displacing the obscure and overwhelming subtleties of direction vs location, and making understanding of Russian adverbs harder for an English speaker. Not sure how many contemporary English speakers know what hither means, but oh well, they can always look it up :) Anyway, I hope these tables at least help to understand how it all works:

English

	At	To	From
This place	Here	Hither	Hence
That place	There	Thither	Thence
What place?	Where?	Whither?	Whence?

Русский

	В	К	От
Этом месте/Этому месту/Этого места	Здесь	Сюда	Отсюда
Tом месте/Тому месту/Того места	Там	Туда	Оттуда
Каком месте/Какому месту/Какого места?	Где?	Куда?	Откуда?

For both tables, you start with selecting a preposition column, then the desired row, so that column title and row title form a reasonable equivalent of the adverb in the corresponding cell, e.g. "At that place" = "There". Because в, к and от require different cases, I listed all three declined row titles, separated by a slash.

vegan russian food, no oven required

[nymphatacita.livejournal.com]

I know this isn't exactly the right place to ask this, but I can't think of anywhere better off the top of my head right now.

The Russian department is having a party tomorrow, and I said that I would bring russian apple pie. I even have a tried-and-true recipe I got from the prof last year. There's one major problem: My oven is broken, and I don't have access to another. We've tried fixing it, and it looks like we'll need outside help.

Long story short, I'll need to bring some type of food to the party, as I said I would. I'm sure they'll understand if I don't bring the pie. What do you all suggest? Obviously, it would need to be something that does not require baking (the rangetop works, and I have a microwave). Not so obviously, it would also need to be vegan. I can substitute for simple things, such as sour cream and butter, but I am not so gifted in finding vegan meat substitutes.

Suggestions?