Borshch and Beyond: Anna Voloshyna on Ukraine’s Diverse Cuisine

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🗓️ 12 October 2022

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

San Francisco chef Anna Voloshyna’s new cookbook Budmo! is a celebration of Ukrainian food and a call to rescue the regional diversity of her home country’s cuisine from the cultural erasure of Soviet occupation. Voloshyna’s hometown in southern Ukraine is now on the front lines of the Russian retreat and she’s been hosting pop-ups and fundraisers for Ukraine relief. We’ll talk food-memories, recipes and about “Budmo!” a toast that means “let us be”. “Whenever I hear it, I know there will be delicious food, blazing drinks, and countless toasts,” she writes. “This word is fierce and vigorous—a perfect embodiment of Eastern European cuisine.” Forum talks with Voloshyna as part of All You Can Eat, our series on the food cultures of the Bay Area. Guests: Anna Voloshyna, chef, blogger, culinary instructor; author, Budmo! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:48.7	The title of Anna Voloshana's new Ukrainian cookbook is Budmo, a traditional toast in that country equivalent
0:55.0	to cheers or salud, but with a different meaning. It roughly translates to let us be. Let us be
1:01.0	in the moment, let us be here. And in the context of the current Russian war, it's hard not to read it
1:06.2	also like, let us be. But Volusina's homeland and her culture have survived other invasions and empires.
1:13.7	The soil and its richest have drawn conquerors for hundreds of years.
1:17.3	And yet the people have endured as front lines have passed back and forth over them.
1:21.6	They've grown their produce, preserved their tomatoes.
1:24.1	And today, Volusina joins us to talk about this food and this culture against the
1:28.3	ghastly backdrop of war. That's coming up next after this news.
1:34.3	Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. This morning, we're joined by Anna Voloshina,
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