Strong Roots: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Ukraine (Olia Hercules) Beer Cider & Mead and oyster farming

and oyster farming

The playful character that has popularized the chef through many of his creations is reflected in the numerous mimesis that he is capable of designing in his mini assortments

From country pâté to eggplant miso terrine

and maps of all the different parts of the region

Pop Bottles dispenses with dry backstory and tedious tasting notes in favor of a rollicking

Strong Roots: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Ukraine (Olia Hercules) Beer Cider & Mead and oyster farmingWhen Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, award winning Ukrainian chef and food writer Olia Hercules decided it was finally time to tell her story. Strong Roots is the story of a century in Ukraine told through four generations of one extraordinary family. It takes us from years of Russification, to Olias grandmothers deportation to snowy wastelands under Stalin, to her aunt Zhenias school protest, to her own parents flight from