A bi-monthly newsletter on life and cooking from a 1.5 generation immigrant from Eastern Europe + Caucasus | Building community and exploring immigrant identity through recipes, personal stories, interviews, current musings,recs, and more...
Cookbook author, former culinary director at Book Larder, baker, and khachapuri connoisseur. New cookbook, Chesnok: Cooking from my Corner of the Diaspora: Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, is out Sept 2025!
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Each full-length newsletter is a dispatch from a single locationโit could be a city, a valley or a cafรฉโsomewhere between Eastern Europe and Central Asia, often there will be a recipe too. If you like my books, you'll like Journeys Beyond Borders!
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