The Comfort and Connection of Incredible Ukrainian Cuisine with Olia Hercules - Episode 125

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4.8 • 788 Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2023

⏱️ 27 minutes

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In Olia Hercules’ book title, she describes the power of food to comfort and connect, and nobody exhibits it in such a captivating way as Olia does.Be inspired by the wonders of world food as one of Ukraine’s most moving and emotive cooks and writers joins Sarah on ‘grow, cook, eat, arrange’, sharing the delights of Ukrainian recipes.In this episode, discover:Olia’s background and journey to discovering the joys of cookeryHeartwarming tales of family recipes perfect for you to try at homeReci...

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0:00.0	If you've been enjoying this podcast over weeks or months or even years, I'd be so grateful
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0:11.1	Thanks so much.
0:28.4	Welcome to Grow Cook Eat Arrange, the podcast of me, Sarah Raven, and today I have a guest who I'm so excited to chat to. Lots of you will know, but if you don't, you honestly should.
0:34.4	And that is Olya Hercules, who is the most fantastic chef from Ukraine.
0:41.0	And her books are for me really the most exciting cookbooks that I've come across in recent years
0:48.8	because they feel incredibly honest, authentic, but practical and easy. And I've always been crazy about Greek food,
0:57.3	but I'm now crazy about Ukrainian. And, well, she covers everything, Crimea, Georgia, it's all in here.
1:06.2	Her books are really unbelievably readable, unbelievably kind of moving and truthful and beautiful. And I lie in bed
1:15.2	and I read them and I lie in the bath and I read them. And they make me want to cook more than any
1:20.9	book I've come across in the last year, I would say. Welcome, Oliya. It's so lovely to have you on the podcast. Thank you so much for such a wonderful
1:32.1	introduction and for having me on the podcast. I'm a huge fan. Well, I'm going to explain to everyone
1:38.2	how we met. It's kind of crazy we haven't met before actually because we're published by
1:42.7	Bloomsbury and all three of Oliya's books, Mamushka was her first, which came out to sort of huge praise.
1:51.9	And then Summer Kitchen was her next, which is food from the entire area around Ukraine.
1:59.3	And then her new one was how I met her, which is home food. And we
2:05.2	shared a stage actually a few weeks ago at Charleston Literary Festival. And it was just the most
2:11.8	fantastic chat with Claire Rietnan. And it was just really wonderful to talk because we love the same sort of
2:19.4	food, which is picked from the garden, bought inside, cooked very simply to have family meals and
2:26.9	also lots and lots of preserves. And so that's why I really wanted, Oli, to join us.
2:31.7	So Oli, will you explain to us about your background and how you've come to
2:35.9	live in London, etc? Yeah, sure. I arrived in the UK about almost 20 years ago to study at
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