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On Bread

This is the most recent newsletter from my Patreon page. Today, after a very long break, I finally mixed a dough for two sourdough loaves. So I wanted to talk about bread. Bread in the Soviet Union was very bad. We called it ‘the brick’. I think it was a little better by the time […]

Seasonal Recipe

Savoury dumplings with green beans, poppy seeds and crispy onion from Summer Kitchens

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.

Books

Cookbooks

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