Hi Friends,
I’m doing one more round of fundraising for the month of June.
All proceeds from Burnt Basque Cheesecake sales this weekend and next weekend will go to Liberty Ukraine, a local Austin nonprofit supporting Ukraine.
Please use the hashtag #cheesecakeforukraine if you post on social media and tag me @ogi_the_yogi or @localbreadbaker.
Podcast + Recipe:
In additional news! I was recently interviewed as a guest on The Storied Recipe Podcast. Here’s what the host, Becky Hadeed, had to say about the episode and the highlights of our interview.
Olia spent summers in Mariupol, dashing through the massive food markets, eating dried fish with her grandparents, and picnicking on the beaches alongside tourists from around the world, including Russians.
However, in 2014 those neighbors mounted siege after siege upon Mariupol. The rounds of assault and resistance became so commonplace that Olia’s grandmother, who worked at the now infamous Azovstal Steel Plant, got used to them. Olia’s family never suspected the full scale besiegement that began February 24, 2022.
For 20 days, Olia, who now lives in Austin, Texas, lost touch with her grandmother and aunt while she used her training as a historian to meticulously track the information trickling out of Mariupol. After 30 days in a basement amid shelling, as her mother’s health failed, Olia’s aunt decided she would rather die trying to escape than staying the basement. This is Olia’s account of Mariupol as it was, her story of living through the first 100 days of Russia’s war on Ukraine, why she believes Russia will never fully succeed, and how she is preserving recipes as an act of resistance and hope.
From The Storied Recipe Website:
https://thestoriedrecipe.com/mariupol-stories-olia-koutseridi/
In Apple Podcasts
In Spotify
FIND THE RECIPE HERE:
https://thestoriedrecipe.com/ukrainian-fish-in-red-sauce-recipe-from-mariupol/
Photo credit to Becky Hadeed from www.thestoriedrecipe.com:
Photo credit to Becky Hadeed from www.thestoriedrecipe.com:
Photo credit to Becky Hadeed from www.thestoriedrecipe.com: