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#CookForUkraine Supper

Monday 13th June 2022

Venue
Ukrainian Community Centre, 14 Royal Terrace, EH7 5AB
Doors Open
7pm
Start Time
7.30pm
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*Places for the supper have now sold out, but if you would still like to make a donation to the #CookforUkraine fund, you can do so here*

“What place does food – always life-giving and often joyful – have at a time of such shocking and bloody invasion. Perhaps more than you’d first think.” says Caroline Eden, journalist and author of Black Sea. 

Cook for Ukraine is a fundraising initiative founded by food writers Olia Hercules and Alissa Timoshkina to “increase awareness of the humanitarian crisis the world faces right now, as well as raise the funds needed to aid children & families in Ukraine who have been displaced by the current situation.” We’re hosting a #CookForUkraine supper this June with our friends at the Ukrainian Community Centre on Royal Terrace to raise money to help the people of Ukraine.

100% of the money raised will go to the fundraiser #CookForUkraine, to those fleeing their homes and those in need of life-saving support inside the country.

The ticket pricing starts at £50 – but we have higher priced tickets for those who would like to donate more to the cause. Everything you pay for a ticket will be donated to the  UNICEF fundraiser #CookForUkraine. The supper will be taking place in June, but we will donate the money as soon as we are fully booked as it is needed in Ukraine urgently.

The menu will be planned around the recipes in some of our favourite cookbooks from the food writers involved in the #CookForUkraine fundraiser. Olia Hercules’ books Mamushka, Kaukasis, and Summer Kitchens; Russian writer Alissa Timoshkina’s Salt & Time; and Caroline Eden’s Black Sea. It will be a celebration of Ukrainian food, culture, and writing.

 

A little flavour of the evening:

Cocktails from Odessa

Mint adjika with soft cheese & apple

Challah & rye bread

Borsch

Holubsi (stuffed cabbage leaves)

‘Black swan effect’ peppers stuffed with apple, carrot & rice

Little boiled potatoes with sunflower oil and dill

Spring radish & tomato salad

Pickles

Flourless chocolate cakes with stem ginger creme fraiche from the Elliott’s kitchen

Ukrainian honey cakes

 

You can find more ideas about how to help on the #CookForUkraine fundraising site. As Olia says:

“I don’t want people to get stuck in the headlines and lose sight of the human beings behind this story. And what’s more human than people getting together and sharing food”

“Ukraine is such a fascinating country full of rolling yellow fields and people who love to cook the recipes their grandparents taught them. But it’s absolutely urgent that we act now, before too much is lost. What they’re experiencing is a tragedy – please help us, people.”