Herbs

In traditional Ukraine culture, special power and status was conferred on men and women who knew all about the medicinal qualities of some plants and could apply them. You could say the same about the modern masters and mistresses of plant lore – the chefs.

For the medicinal plants are usually one and the same as the herbs used for flavouring: sorrel, dill, parsley, caraway, juniper, mint, yarrow, wormwood, aloe and rosemary to name but a few Herb gardens in Ukraine? Ukrainians just open any door – and they are in the biggest herb garden of all. To illustrate the scale of this culinary-cum-health care wealth, before independence Ukraine produced half of the medicinal plants (herbs) used in the Soviet Union. Today, a score of research institutions in Ukraine are engaged in work on further understanding the value of medicinal plants.