Kapusta: Vegetable-Forward Recipes from Eastern Europe

Biographical Note:
Alissa Timoshkina is a food writer, cook and historian specialising in Eastern European food culture. Born in Siberia, Alissa's heritage is Ukrainian-Jewish and Polish on her mother's side, and Ukrainian, Russian and Belorussian on her father's side. She is the founder of multi-award winning global fundraising campaign #CookforUkraine, which since its inception has raised close to £2.5 million. She is the author of Salt and Time: Recipes from a Russian Kitchen, which was a finalist in the Guild of Food Writers and the Julia Child Awards. Alissa lives in London with her partner and their two children. Kapusta is her second book. @alissatimoshkina.

Publisher Marketing:

"Come for the food and stay for the stories - every curious cook will take a leaf out of this book." - Yotam Ottolenghi

Focusing on five key vegetables to the region - cabbage, beetroot, potato, carrot and mushrooms - it honors a philosophy of cooking that has affordability, seasonality, sustainability and, above all, great flavor at its heart. With chapters on dumplings and pickles and ferments as well, you'll find a diversity of dishes which exemplify the Eastern European culinary DNA.

Recipes are accompanied by beautiful photography and include a range of both meat-based and vegetarian dishes such as A Cabbage Strudel, both Vegan and Beef Borsch, Potato Babka, Pierogi, a Tzimmes Carrot Cake, Bulgarian Mushroom and Walnut Pâté, and a range of sauerkrauts.

Kapusta bursts with original recipes and shines a spotlight on the whole kaleidoscope of little-known culinary cultures and history from across the extensive region.