The Authentic Ukrainian Kitchen: Recipes from a Native Chef (Yevhen Klopotenko)

In The Authentic Ukrainian Kitchen,Yevhen Klopotenko shares the true food of Ukrainethe way it is really cooked todaywith modern recipes for familiar and forgotten dishes.

Klopotenko is Ukraines most internationally celebrated chef, appearing on the cover ofTIMEmagazine and on CBS Sunday Morning. A top restaurateur in Kyiv, winner of Ukraines MasterChef, and an activist promoting Ukrainian food around the world, he has also worked with First Lady Olena Zelenska to revamp the countrys school lunch program and campaigned for the United Nations to recognize the heritage of borshch.

The recipes he collects in this book are the result of years of research into regional Ukrainian cooking. After training as a chef in France and cooking professionally in the US and elsewhere, he returned to Ukraine with a desire to catalog and promote his own national cuisinefree of influence from Soviet-era propaganda.