It’s just three cookbooks, but they feel very heavy. Their weight, however, is due much more to their content rather than to their actual mass. I think you’ll understand why they feel that way when I ...
We're knee-deep into the season of Lent. Christians everywhere have given up and added to, for the purpose of a more focused and meaningful experience. As we look forward to the day of celebration ...
This will be an Easter like no other for Natalya Drozhzhin. Drozhzhin, an Arrington, Tennessee-based food blogger, fled Ukraine at the age of 13 with her family, in search of religious asylum. Under ...
For Sofiia Terebova, the quintessential taste of Easter isn’t roast lamb or creamy scalloped potatoes. It’s paska – the almost cake-like Ukrainian bread she’s enjoyed on the holiday for as long as she ...
At my uncle’s funeral in 2001, the priest remarked to me during a conversation, “You’re not Russian. You are Ukrainian.” The funeral was held in the small yet ornate Ukrainian Catholic Church in a ...
Maria Fedachtchin’s fingers trembled a bit as she etched the first intricate lines of beeswax along the smooth, unblemished shell of an egg cradled in her palm. She’s learning to design pysanky, the ...
Hours before she was scheduled to address the crowd gathered at the Dayton Art Institute, Christina Pereyma learned that Russia had just invaded Ukraine. The date was Thursday, February 24, 2022. The ...