For UVA alum Polina Chesnakova, writing Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora: Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia was a crash course in learning her family’s culinary traditions. “I wanted to document and preserve my family’s recipes and to be able to hand down this culinary heritage to my children […]
For UVA alum Polina Chesnakova, writing Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora: Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia was a crash course in learning her family’s culinary traditions. “I wanted to document and preserve my family’s recipes and to be able to hand down this culinary heritage to my children […]
Cheesy goodness: In the intro to her cookbook Hot Cheese: Over 50 Gooey, Oozy, Melty Recipes, Polina Chesnakova writes: “…something happens when you apply heat to curds: a setting of the stage. A bubbling pot of fondue, a half wheel of raclette as it blisters and caramelizes under a grill.” To salivate even more, break […]