Forget the stereotype: Ukranian cuisine is about more than just borscht, as a new cookbook shows.
“Potatoes,” Olia Hercules fumes. “Everyone thinks I’ve written a book about bloody potatoes.” It must be said that there is the odd spud in Mamushka (Mitchell Beazley), her surprisingly colourful celebration of Ukrainian food (after all, how could you have an eastern European cookbook without borscht?), but potatoes are far from the only thing to thrive in the country’s famously fertile black soil.
In fact, Hercules – young, slightly built and rarely seen without a slick of dangerously red lipstick – bears as much …read more
Source: New Statesman
