Commentary: A notebook with family recipes reminds me of Ukraine’s strength
“Sew the necks up on one side. Mix flour, fried onions and chicken fat and stuff the necks.”
This is a line from a notebook in which my grandmother wrote out family recipes for me by hand, a few years before she passed. It contains instructions for dishes that sustained my ancestors in Ukrainian and modern-day Belarusian towns and cities for generations.
The notebook has a burgundy velvet cover and a floral embellishment that was glued on by my grandfather. My mother’s parents bought it while browsing a garage sale, one of their
