Recipes from Ukraine

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Recipes from Ukraine

By Yurii Pryiemskyi and Simon Boyle

Published 2020

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Dedicated to Ukraine
Classic ingredients in the 21st Century

Yurii Pryiemskyi

“We have a very rich cuisine in Ukraine and we should embrace the garden of our land.”

Welcome to Yurii’s kitchen Philosophy

Ukraine is a forager’s paradise, a land with countless miles of wild-flower meadows and an orchard huddled close to every house in its myriad villages.
In late May, the markets of Kyiv turn blood-red as the super-abundant strawberry harvest is brought to the capital. To the West, the beautiful Carpathian Mountains offer countless other wild berry types along with enough varieties of mushroom to support a cottage industry of fungi foraging tourism.