Baba'S Kitchen: Ukrainian Soul Food: With Stories From The Village, Third Edition

Ukrainian Canadian Congress immigration anniversary Special Selection. Outrageous stories and traditional recipes & folk remedies from Stalinist and Holocaust survivors. Compared to erotic games in the village bath & shoplifting live turkeys in your bloomers, immigrant life is beyond boring. So Baba (Grandma) is brewing up Old Country customs in her kitchen. She'll teach you to make delicious Ukrainian dishes (plus simple folk remedies) the traditional & The Lazy Way, sabotage frenemies with garlic, & utter chilling Slavic curses such as, "May you be kicked by a duck!" Between tales of magical encounters with Nature spirits & steaming bowls of borshch is the confession of the author's elderly neighbour: she murdered her abusive husband with a very special recipe. Ukrainian-Canadian author Raisa Stone has collected stories from survivors of Nazi and Soviet terror---including her family. Raisa's narrator, Baba,is a composite of these invincible souls. Baba's Kitchen is abundant with fascinating facts about Ukraine's history. For excerpts, video/audio clips of Baba's stories and more, visit: www.ukrainiansoulfood.ca_____________Ukrainians: first tamed horses, invented pants (for riding!), and the bow and arrow, built homes from mammoth bone & pyramids older than Egypt's, & created Europe's first democratic constitution. Shamanic practices that sparked the original werewolf and Amazon legends (the latter documented by Greek physician Hippocrates) combine with traditions reaching back to the Neolithic era._____________ Detailed instructions for traditional Ukrainian breads such as Paska and Babka. The menu and customs for Holiday buffets. Plus the erotic Midsummer Festival, including lyrics to bawdy kozak (cossack) songs. "Your book has us all laughing hysterically & uncontrollably! "~Capital Ukrainian Festival, Ottawa. "Baba's Kitchen is a good companion to Savella Stechishin's book [Traditional Ukrainian Cookery]. We will be presenting copies as Awards at our year end dinner.." ~ Los Angeles Ukrainian Cultural Centre. "Long live Baba's Kitchen! This is a wonderful presentation of Ukrainian cuisine. Beautiful recipes with stories that make them come alive!"~Professor of Franklin Sciacca (Slavic Studies), Hamilton College, Clinton, New York. "Baba is a little goofy, but gives an excellent explanation of Ukie Christmas customs!"~Ukrainian American Coordinating Council

• | Author: Raisa Marika Stohyn
• | Publisher: Dear Companion Publishing
• | Publication Date: Aug 01, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 396 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0987869302
• | ISBN-13: 9780987869302