Virtual Author Talk: Kapusta, Alissa Timoshkina

We're delighted to virtually welcome Alissa Timoshkina to celebrate her new book Kapusta: Vegetable-Forward Recipes from Eastern Europe--a culinary journey that celebrates and focuses on five key vegetables – cabbage, beetroot, potato, carrot and mushrooms – and honors a philosophy of cooking that has affordability, seasonality, sustainability and, above all, great flavor at its heart. Alissa will be in conversation with cookbook author Polina Chesnakova.

How this works: This event will be broadcast live on Zoom. Registering will provide you with a unique access link in an email. At the event time, click that link to watch the talk. During the event, feel free to ask questions using the Zoom Q&A feature.

This author talk is FREE, but you can support it by purchasing a signed copy of the book here. Thank you!

About the book:

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

A culinary journey across Eastern Europe, Kapusta celebrates the humble vegetables that have shaped some of the most vibrant culinary traditions in the world.

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.

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, and the author of Salt and Time, 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.