Festive Ukrainian Cooking

by Marta Pisetska Farley

Book Overview

More than a cookbook, Festive Ukrainian Cooking is also a definitive account of traditional Ukrainian culture as perpetuated in family rituals and lovingly celebrated with elegantly prepared food and drink.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822936461
• ISBN13: 9780822936466
• Release Date: October 1990
• Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 7.2" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Adds to our holidays

Festive Ukrainian Cooking has easy to follow recipes. While all of our grandmothers had their own variations, this is a good starting point to get back to our beginnings.

At last, understandable!

For any Ukrainian food/holiday tradition enthusiast tired of struggling through encoded recipes from "babtsia," this is the book for you!!! It provides simple recipes and introductions to the mysterious art of Ukrainian cooking -- "borshcht kvas," "pravdyviy hryby," et. al. -- as well as modern versions of the old traditions. Makes a traditional Ukrainian Christmas a reality.

Excellent recipes - like mom or grandmother used to make

Used to drive me crazy when my mother cooked Ukrainian foods and never had a recipe. Well, with this book all that has changed. I use it for those recipes where "a little of this and a little of that and then you mix it together" mean little to me. Also has excellent explanations of the different holidays and foods appropriate for the holiday.

Excellent, easy-to-follow recipes

If you enjoy Ukrainian food, this is the book to get. Most repipes use easy-to-get ingridients. The meals pleased many a Ukrainian homesick for native food.

Grandma's recipes made easy

Looking for a modern version of your grandmother's ethnic meals? This one will help you carry on the tradition of the meals she once made for you. A definite must have.