Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora: Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia by Polina Chesnakova georgian food telling it exclusively through the

telling it exclusively through the stories of its women

It is inspired by two decades of fieldwork in the region and a deep knowledge of the region’s academia and political environment

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Chesnok: Cooking from My Corner of the Diaspora: Recipes from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia by Polina Chesnakova georgian food telling it exclusively through the"Chesnok: Recipes with Love from Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Beyond" is Polina Chesnakovas love letter to the food of her childhood. Born in Ukraine to Russian and Armenian parents from Georgia, she grew up cooking and eating at the hip of her mother and aunts. Essays, stories, and profiles of the amazing cooks in her life are peppered amongst recipes as diverse as the communities from which they blossomed and the immigrant experience they were