Strong Roots: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Ukraine (Olia Hercules) Yale Recipes were contributed by the

Recipes were contributed by the wives who cooked their husbands favorite dishes

And since no one evokes a cuisine better than its daughters and sons

cook dinner for their family every night

from the author’s favorite

Strong Roots: A Memoir of Food, Family, and Ukraine (Olia Hercules) Yale Recipes were contributed by theWhen Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, award winning Ukrainian chef and food writer Olia Hercules decided it was finally time to tell her story. Strong Roots is the story of a century in Ukraine told through four generations of one extraordinary family. It takes us from years of Russification, to Olias grandmothers deportation to snowy wastelands under Stalin, to her aunt Zhenias school protest, to her own parents flight from