Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora: Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia Sean Sherman meaning there aren’t any fancy

meaning there aren’t any fancy specialty ingredients

and she has elevated our consciousness to the refined pleasures of dining

What started as a desire to document recipes turned into sharing the joys

Many of the recipes are somewhere in between

bringing country store spirit (and his take on that turkey sandwich) to the masses

Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora: Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia Sean Sherman meaning there aren’t any fancyA love letter to the food of her childhood, acclaimed writer Polina Chesnakova shares 100 vibrant regional recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Born in Ukraine to Russian and Armenian parents from Georgia, Polina Chesnakova grew up cooking and eating at the hip of her mother and aunts. Chesnok paints a warm portrait of the Soviet diaspora through food, with dishes that will be nostalgic and familiar for those within the