Recipe

Savoury lazy dumplings with green beans, poppy seeds and crispy onion

Лениві вареники

By syr, Ukrainians mean a particular curd cheese, standing somewhere between cottage and ricotta cheese, made from raw milk at home and used for everything from spreading on rye bread to filling dumplings.

Writing

Bulgarian Summer Kitchen: Rakiya, White Mulberries and Baba Nadia’s Cheese

Words and Photography by Tim Clinch. I never had a summer kitchen when I was growing up. My experiences are purely from living in Bulgaria and travelling in Ukraine.

Books

Cookbooks

"Olia Hercules is a storyteller-foodwriter, and a wholly original voice in the kitchen…" Nigella Lawson