What do you do when military tensions heat up in your homeland? In the case of Ottawa’s 25,000 citizens of Ukrainian heritage, you make perogies — 16,800 of them to be exact.
It may not seem immediately obvious, but Jane Kolbe can explain.
“The war in Ukraine is the impetus,” says Kolbe, organizer of this weekend’s Capital Ukrainian Festival, a first combined effort of the parishioners of the Ukrainian Catholic and Orthodox churches in Ottawa. “There was a calling in the community to have a place to gather and to celebrate who we are.”
The 1,400 dozen potato-and-cheese handmade perogies — more correctly …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
