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Baba's Kitchen: Ukrainian Soul Food With Stories From the Village
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#1 Bestseller in European Cooking Top Ten Bestseller in Cooking Humor Top Five Bestseller in Regional/International Cooking Amazon Kindle Compared to erotic games in the village bath and shoplifting live turkeys in your bloomers, immigrant life is beyond boring. So Baba (Grandma) is brewing up Old Country customs in her kitchen. "Baba's Kitchen" is a collection of heart wrenching and hilarious stories and 190 traditional recipes from refugees and immigrants. Narrator Baba instructs on how to cook traditional Ukrainian dishes The Lazy Way, make love to a bald man, cope with gossipy neighbors and utter Slavic curses such as, "May you be kicked by a duck!" Delicious food and womanly wiles with which to hunt Nazis/Soviets, snag hot bachelors and rescue animals, too. Bonus chapter: folk remedies for PMS, arthritis, cranky mates, yeast infections and chapped nipples.
#1 Bestseller in European Cooking Top Ten Bestseller in Cooking Humor Top Five Bestseller in Regional/International Cooking Amazon Kindle Compared to erotic games in the village bath and shoplifting live turkeys in your bloomers, immigrant life is beyond boring. So Baba (Grandma) is brewing up Old Country customs in her kitchen. "Baba's Kitchen" is a collection of heart wrenching and hilarious stories and 190 traditional recipes from refugees and immigrants. Narrator Baba instructs on how to cook traditional Ukrainian dishes The Lazy Way, make love to a bald man, cope with gossipy neighbors and utter Slavic curses such as, "May you be kicked by a duck!" Delicious food and womanly wiles with which to hunt Nazis/Soviets, snag hot bachelors and rescue animals, too. Bonus chapter: folk remedies for PMS, arthritis, cranky mates, yeast infections and chapped nipples.
386 pages, Kindle Edition
First published January 11, 2012
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June 18, 2015
Hilarious cookbook! Love the recipes too. Baba is fabulous.
January 11, 2017
Funny read and great food making whilst chuckling. Fond memories of my Ukrainian grandmother's amazing meals that I thought I had lost when she passed. A real treat!
January 11, 2018
LOVE this book!
She makes you laugh so your not at all nervous trying these recipes.
No chef here -but have made quite a few recipes and ALL have turned out great.
Thank you Baba!
She makes you laugh so your not at all nervous trying these recipes.
No chef here -but have made quite a few recipes and ALL have turned out great.
Thank you Baba!
May 4, 2015
Fun read! Baba is a lot like many strong Eastern European women I've known. I didn't like the way the recipes are posted and would prefer a more tradional layout. The antedotes are quirky. Being first generation Ukrainian-American myself, had some trouble with names and ingredients in some recipes but then my family is from another region. Also, Baba is a bit of a Yenta, but the author's roots are Judeo- Christian which would explain some of the differences. Set all, have to support my fellow Ukrainians and would recomment to all.
May 17, 2016
I was fortunate enough to get this ebook through Baba's facebook. I've only begun reading it....sort of skimmed through it and then have started to read it all. The recipes are from way back when.....truly original.....some I remember my mother making and some I am intrigued with and am going to try. I love Baba's sense of humour and wonderful stories.....she is just so unique. I visualize that my own Baba would have been like this. Idon't remember my Baba as we left Europe when I was 3.....I am now 69.
Thank you so much Baba for this amazing book....I truly treasure it <3
Thank you so much Baba for this amazing book....I truly treasure it <3
January 16, 2017
I love this book.
Sometimes there's a book that speaks to the root of who you are, this is that book. It combines humour with history and delicious recipes. The descriptions are top notch, the recipes accurate. It is not just a cook book it is an experience. I did not want to put it down. I highly recommend it to anyone.
Sometimes there's a book that speaks to the root of who you are, this is that book. It combines humour with history and delicious recipes. The descriptions are top notch, the recipes accurate. It is not just a cook book it is an experience. I did not want to put it down. I highly recommend it to anyone.
August 3, 2016
Reading this book has brought me back to my youth growing up on a farm in small town Saskatchewan. This has charmed many tears of happy memories of my own Baba! Thank you for taking me back home!
July 20, 2022
The beet salad with dill is now one of my favorites! Seriously delicious. I’ve not tried anything from here that I didn’t like. But this book is as much about the stories as it is about the food.
This is a cookbook written as if by your wise old Baba (Ukrainian grandmother). It’s meant to be humorous while still letting the reader get to know more about Ukrainian food and in its own way about Ukrainian culture and history.
At the end of the book there are a few pages in the author’s own voice describing more about Ukrainian history, culture and the constant invasions from neighboring countries. For anyone still in doubt about Ukrainian “brotherhood” with its aggressive neighbor those pages would be a good starting place.
Two poems at the very end of the book are beautiful. The only Ukrainian poems I have read other than Shevchenko which makes me think I’ve more poetry left to discover.
This is a cookbook written as if by your wise old Baba (Ukrainian grandmother). It’s meant to be humorous while still letting the reader get to know more about Ukrainian food and in its own way about Ukrainian culture and history.
At the end of the book there are a few pages in the author’s own voice describing more about Ukrainian history, culture and the constant invasions from neighboring countries. For anyone still in doubt about Ukrainian “brotherhood” with its aggressive neighbor those pages would be a good starting place.
Two poems at the very end of the book are beautiful. The only Ukrainian poems I have read other than Shevchenko which makes me think I’ve more poetry left to discover.
November 13, 2018
Fantastic! One of a kind cookbook/culture lesson in one!
February 13, 2020
I wish I had ten copies!
May 22, 2022
It's a cross between a cookbook and a philosophy of life! A must-read for anyone even remotely Ukrainian.
September 1, 2016
It’s now been 4 weeks since I received my copy of your wonderful “Baba’s Kitchen: Ukrainian Soul Food” cookbook and enjoyed reading a number of the recipes very much. I lent the book to my mom the next day- I haven’t seen it since.
August 13, 2015
There are better Ukrainian recipe books around, but this one is tinged with humour.
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