Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine

“This book is so important because it’s a documentation of Ukrainian villages, their summer kitchens, their dachas, pre-2022 and the full-scale invasion. Summer Kitchens was published in 2020. Hercules would, obviously, have been researching it her whole life, but she was researching it actively for several years before that. So it’s an absolutely crucial piece of documentation, a piece of memory work. And it’s gorgeous. I was looking through it yesterday and it brings tears to my eyes now, because these are villages where farmers have not been able to cultivate their fields properly because of the missiles and war debris.” Read more...

The Best Eastern European Cookbooks

Caroline Eden, Cooks & Food Writer