Some of our readers have asked about Ukrainian cookbooks, and John and I can recommend two: Beyond Borscht and Mamushka. Both books include recipes from other Eastern European countries: Moldova,
Tatyana Nesteruk is a US food blogger and author of two cookbooks with a youtube channel. Her family emigrated from the Ukraine in 1989.
Olia Hercules is a Ukrainian chef who lives in the UK and is the author of three cookbooks (Mamushka and Summer Kitchen are available here).
A country’s cuisine is such an important part of its citizens identity, and to that end we want you to enjoy a sampling of Ukraine’s cuisine and help this brave, brave country in its hour of need.
There are other ways that you can inform yourself about the Ukrainian struggle against the brutal
I just went to the opening of an exhibition of poster art at The Ukraine House in Washington, DC. The posters are from a collaborative group of artists in Ukraine, Pictoric_ua. This exhibit will continue through April 22, 2022.We have used the artwork with attribution to each artist in our posts for Kitchen Detail and on Instagram. Three of them were chosen for the commemorative menu. The staff at Ukraine House has set up bids for each poster, with the funds going to their programs to aid their citizens. It was difficult for me to choose just one, but I finally settled on this one by Jenya Polosina.
You can contact Pictoric.ua to organize an exhibition of these posters in your community at this email address: pictoric.ua@gmail.com.
And to end this post and send our gratitude to all of you who joined us in this effort to support Razom and the defence of Ukraine, I want to share with you one of my favorite video clips that appeared on my Facebook page. You can follow the Instagram account of Taras Topolia, the singer for the Ukrainian band Antityla. His personal posts as he and his bandmates fight in critical areas of Ukraine are informative, heartbreaking and yet have the steely optimism that is perhaps uniquely Ukrainian. It is from the Facebook account ofAmy Wadge Page.
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