Ukrainian Cookbooks

Our Cookbook page will be featuring cookbooks with recipes for foods from what is now the Czech and Slovak Republics and surrounding areas of Poland, Hungary, Russia, and the Ukraine.

Ukrainian Cookbooks

Title: The Best of Ukrainian Cuisine
Author: Bohdan Zahny
Publisher: Hippocrene
Date Published: April 1998
Format: Trade Paper

This 300 page cookbook is now into its second printing.

Title: Festive Ukrainian Cooking
Author: Marta Pisetska Farley
Publisher: U of Pitts
Date Published: October 1990
Format: Trade Cloth

From Publisher's Weekly:

The festivities of the title follow the usual Christian calendar -- Easter, Christmas, Pentecost and various saints' days. But Christianity in the 19th-century Ukraine, the focus of Ukrainian-born Farley's well-researched book, coexisted with a rural paganism in which ancestors were appeased and fed at Christmas, river spirits blessed and, in a typical grace, God appeared simply as prima inter pares :

"Gracious Lord, sun of truth, stars of beauty, moon of light, wind ferocious, rain bountiful, weather beautiful, ancestors' fathers, we feast with you and greet you in summer."

The cuisine, likewise, derives from an agrarian prototype shared by other Eastern Europeans and by the Ashkenazim as well.

The foods, like the traditions, are hearty: cabbage rolls meatless or meat-filled; two kinds of borschsic, varying with the season; meat stuffed in casings or covered with aspic; numerous sweet or savory breads, rolls, dumplings, fritters and pancakes, some topped with cabbage or cheese for ordinary meals, others containing a hefty half-pound of butter, a cup of cream and 30 large egg yolks to create a lavish Easter spread.

Publisher's Weekly

Title: Ukrainian Recipes
Author: Press Penfield (Editor)
Publisher: Penfield Press
Date Published: January 1996
Format: Trade Paper