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...
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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