Chesnok: Notes from a Post-Soviet Kitchen
by Polina Chesnakovain 🍲 Food & Drink
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Chesnok: Notes from a Post-Soviet Kitchen
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A bi-monthly newsletter on life and cooking from a Soviet diaspora kitchen | Building community and exploring immigrant identity through recipes, personal stories, interviews, current musings and recs, and more...
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About Polina Chesnakova
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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