Summer Kitchens: book launch and online cooking lesson with Olia Hercules
Date and time:
Tuesday 23 June, 2020
18:00 - 20:00
Location:
As the heat of summer rises, all across Ukraine a unique tradition returns: the summer kitchen. Always positioned near a fruit plot or veg patch so families can enjoy home-grown produce and preserve the surplus in preparation for winter, the summer kitchen is a distinctly Ukrainian phenomenon. This homage to outdoor life and food is now the focus of the British-Ukrainian star chef Olia Hercules' latest, long-awaited cookbook - "Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine”.
Join Ukrainian Institute London for this unique event – an online cooking lesson with Olia! As she rolls out her favourite recipe from “Summer Kitchens”. Olia will be in conversation with Peter Pomerantsev, a well-known author and media expert with Ukrainian roots who will this time try a new role, that of a food commentator.
This event will be held in English.
FREE
Speaker
Olia Hercules
Olia Hercules is a Leith’s-trained chef and she developed her cooking skills by working in the kitchens of Ottolenghi. She was chosen as 'Observer Rising Star of 2015' in the food category. Her first cookery book, 'Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine and Beyond' was published in June 2015. In 2017 she published 'Kaukasis: The Cookbook – A Journey Through the Wild East' and in 2020 she published 'Summer Kitchens Inside Ukraine's Hidden Places of Cooking and Sanctuary'.
Moderator
Peter Pomerantsev
Peter Pomerantsev is an author, journalist and director of the Arena Research Initiative at Johns Hopkins University, which recently published the report ‘From Memory Wars to a Common Future: Overcoming Polarisation in Ukraine’. The Arena Initiative is dedicated to overcoming the challenges of polarisation and disinformation through sociological and media research projects involving journalists, academics and data scientists. Peter is the author of the award-winning book on Russian propaganda Nothing is True and Everything is Possible (2015, Faber & Faber) and This is Not Propaganda: Adventures in the War Against Reality (2019, Faber & Faber).
