Who is stupid enough to think a thousands of year old culture cant have high class food?
Just because its different doesn’t mean it isn’t damn good either. Most people need to go out and try some spices.
Everything can be fine dining. That’s basically the concept of many fine dining restaurants: Taking things that are usual and down-to-earth-food and turn it into fine dining.
I mean, there are fine dining burgers and fries.
Get a few Ukrainian cookbooks, and knock yourselves out! Klopotenko has a few but also classic books have a LOT to offer! 💙💛
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Some of the best food I had in my life was in Ukraine. 😋
My wife is a great amateur cook, left Ukraine as a toddler at the end of WW-II. She cooks many different cuisines but the Ukrainian dishes she learned from her Mom are superb.
“Food may not be the answer to world peace, but it’s a start”. Anthony Bourdain
To my surprise the food in Ukraine is among the best I’ve had. It’s important to know why:
1. high quality ingredients. Their crop seeds probably have relatively unmodified DNA. In the US scientists have genetically modified our crop DNA the past 50+ years to sacrifice certain attributes like taste and nutrition in favor of attributes that maximize profit like yield, resistance to drought, transport durability. For instance the next time you buy a fast food BLT burger notice the thick rubbery bland tomato slices – tomatoes weren’t always like that. I also recall a study in 2009 that compared the levels of nutrients like niacin, folate, riboflavin etc in modern US wheat strains versus US wheat strains from the 1950s – the modern wheat contains less nutrients.
2. highest quality soil
3. less use of chemicals
High quality inputs make it easier for a skilled creative chef to produce an amazing food experience.
There’s a Ukrainian restaurant in Chicago that just opened by a pretty respected chef. It’s outstandong, and for me that’s saying something since I’m a picky eater.
Why would anyone think that? You can fine dine literally any cuisine.
I’ve never thought that. It’s good food.
There’s a place in Los Angeles that’s a fantastic Ukrainian fusion restaurant. If anyone is in LA, check out “Mom Please” in Playa Vista. Really nice area, really good food
Went to a Ukrainian place in Manhattan last year. Great place; lotta fundraising for the war. Waiter told us that “you can have anything you want, as long as it’s sausage”. LOL.
I’m pro-carnivore, so it was up my alley.
I’m curious. I’m Russian and have always been under the impression that Eastern European food just wasn’t super good outside of salads and soups.
I never branched out to Ukranian, Latvian, or any of the other slavic countries’ foods. Every time I went to Moscow, I never looked super forward to any of the food outside of candy and soup.
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Who is stupid enough to think a thousands of year old culture cant have high class food?
Just because its different doesn’t mean it isn’t damn good either. Most people need to go out and try some spices.
Everything can be fine dining. That’s basically the concept of many fine dining restaurants: Taking things that are usual and down-to-earth-food and turn it into fine dining.
I mean, there are fine dining burgers and fries.
Get a few Ukrainian cookbooks, and knock yourselves out! Klopotenko has a few but also classic books have a LOT to offer! 💙💛
Who thinks this?
Some of the best food I had in my life was in Ukraine. 😋
My wife is a great amateur cook, left Ukraine as a toddler at the end of WW-II. She cooks many different cuisines but the Ukrainian dishes she learned from her Mom are superb.
“Food may not be the answer to world peace, but it’s a start”. Anthony Bourdain
To my surprise the food in Ukraine is among the best I’ve had. It’s important to know why:
1. high quality ingredients. Their crop seeds probably have relatively unmodified DNA. In the US scientists have genetically modified our crop DNA the past 50+ years to sacrifice certain attributes like taste and nutrition in favor of attributes that maximize profit like yield, resistance to drought, transport durability. For instance the next time you buy a fast food BLT burger notice the thick rubbery bland tomato slices – tomatoes weren’t always like that. I also recall a study in 2009 that compared the levels of nutrients like niacin, folate, riboflavin etc in modern US wheat strains versus US wheat strains from the 1950s – the modern wheat contains less nutrients.
2. highest quality soil
3. less use of chemicals
High quality inputs make it easier for a skilled creative chef to produce an amazing food experience.
There’s a Ukrainian restaurant in Chicago that just opened by a pretty respected chef. It’s outstandong, and for me that’s saying something since I’m a picky eater.
Why would anyone think that? You can fine dine literally any cuisine.
I’ve never thought that. It’s good food.
There’s a place in Los Angeles that’s a fantastic Ukrainian fusion restaurant. If anyone is in LA, check out “Mom Please” in Playa Vista. Really nice area, really good food
Went to a Ukrainian place in Manhattan last year. Great place; lotta fundraising for the war. Waiter told us that “you can have anything you want, as long as it’s sausage”. LOL.
I’m pro-carnivore, so it was up my alley.
I’m curious. I’m Russian and have always been under the impression that Eastern European food just wasn’t super good outside of salads and soups.
I never branched out to Ukranian, Latvian, or any of the other slavic countries’ foods. Every time I went to Moscow, I never looked super forward to any of the food outside of candy and soup.
I’ll have to bust out some Ukranian cookbooks.