Olia Hercules: Home Food

This week, Gilly is with Olia Hercules, the award-winning food
writer who put the food of her home country of Ukraine on the
map, and has since found herself fighting to keep its stories in
the headlines as Russia razes it to the ground.


With her Russian food writer friend, Alissa Timoshkina, she has
raised millions through their #cookforukraine campaign. It has
inspired thousands of pop ups all over the country, not just to
raise money but to keep that rich food culture alive in our
hearts and minds.   


She wrote her latest book, Home Food: Recipes to Comfort and
Connect in Lockdown just after giving birth to her second child,
which is no mean feat, but could have no idea at the time that
she would launch it in a war zone. Here she tells us about her
mission to tell the story of her homeland, and about her Patreon
channel which she has created to support and
rebuild Ukraine.





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