Ukrainian Food Culture - With Olia Hercules

What is it to lose a paradise? How do you square the feeling of deep loss for a place?

Welcome to the newest episode of The Delicious Legacy!

Strong Roots, is the memoir of Olia Hercules, food writer, cook, activist amongst many other things.

The book is an ode to the land, to ideas of home and belonging, and to family stories and recipes passed down the generations.

Here we talk about the land, the produce, the culinary treasures of Ukrainian people and their unique foods, a mixture of many people and religions living in the rich bountiful land of Ukraine. Of course war, dispossession, hunger and exiled are part and parcel of the story of Ukraine. For Ukrainians worry is a national pastime. And fermentation is in their DNA. Preservation, is part and parcel of their survival.

Olia is the author of Mamushka, Summer Kitchens, Kaukasis: The Cookbook, Home Food and of course Strong Roots.

You can get a copy of Strong Roots here:

https://www.waterstones.com/book/strong-roots/olia-hercules/9781526662927

Who is Taras Shevchenko:

https://shevchenko.ca/taras-shevchenko/biography/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legacy_of_Taras_Shevchenko

Recommendation of the week:

https://ruby-tandoh.medium.com/empire-of-seeds-ee4308a529c4

Music by Pavlos Kapralos

Enjoy!

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