Ukrainian cuisine

So let's talk about the food.

I love how you break down the flavors of Ukrainian food into seven categories.

Herbaceous, sharp and pungent, nutty, sour, fatty, umami, and spiced.

I would love to first talk about sour.

You talk about it as the vital energy of the Ukrainian kitchen.

Why? So first of all,

historically, Ukrainian food is very hardy because we are the land of farmers and Ukrainian food had always peasant roots.

So lots of grains, lots of root vegetables, vegetables.

So, my extended family, We had a family gathering on Sunday and there's a lot of cousins on my wife's side.

She's Ukrainian.

And I've mentioned this before.

They had, there was, I think it was six kids were born within like a seventh month period.

Yeah.

Oh, that is good.

And my favorite part about Thanksgiving, let's just say over the last five or six years is the fact that again, my wife's family is Ukrainian and they bring Ukrainian food into my life.

And I always bring this one up, especially around Christmas and, But Ukrainian food is, I will go out on a limb, the best food heritage in the world.

I like to do sweet potatoes there, cornbread dressing.

We like to mix in some of my wife's Ukrainian heritage, the cabbage rolls there.

Wow.

This

feels like a good combination, you and her.

It's a great combination with the southern mix, the Ukrainian mix.

Let's just say if you leave my house hungry, you probably...

You've done something wrong for sure.

And you can taste and vote on your favorite meat or veggie borscht, and, uh, it's a colorful, warming soup.

And the event celebrates Ukrainian food and culture, so you can also get some pastries there, but also s- raises money to send thermal clothing and blankets to Ukraine.

There's also the Croatian wine dinner at Lupe and Iris if you're still in that cultural mood.

Okay.