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In the latest episode of Life in Food with Laura Price, I talk about Food and War with Alissa Timoshkina, who co-founded the Cook for Ukraine fundraising initiative with her friend Olia Hercules. In the episode, we talk about her campaign to fight conflict and violence with food and love, what she has learned from Russia's war on Ukraine, and how her Jewish-Ukrainian grandmother taught her that the human spirit cannot be extinguished through war.Follow Alissa on Instagram @alissatimoshkina.Follow MotherFood on Instagram @motherfoodlondon.Listen to MotherFood podcast.Follow Alissa on Twitter @alissatimoshkin.Buy Alissa's cookbook, Salt & Time.Try Alissa's recipe for borsch.Get involved with CookforUkraine.org.Visit Alissa's website.Read Laura's interview with Alissa and Olia for The World's 50 Best Restaurants.Restaurants mention in the episode:Mriya Neo BistroAbout Alissa Timoshkina: Alissa is a writer, historian and chef who published her first book, Salt and Time: Recipes from a Russian Kitchen, in 2019, and who hosts the podcast Motherfood. She founded the supper club KinoVino, pairing dishes with films, and has now extended Motherfood into a food service for new mothers.About the host: Laura Price is a multilingual journalist who travels the world writing about restaurants. A proud Yorkshire lass at heart, she spent several years in Latin America before settling in London. Her first novel, Single Bald Female, was inspired by her experience of being diagnosed with breast cancer at 29. A novelist by day and a food writer by night, Laura combines her two passions into this podcast, bringing out powerful stories of survival and healing in a language that everyone understands – food.Buy Single Bald Female.Visit Laura's website.Read Laura's Substack newsletter, Doughnuts for Breakfast.Follow Laura on Instagram @laurapricewrites.Follow Laura on Twitter @laurapricewrite.Life in Food is hosted, produced and edited by Laura Price. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
I am so honored to introduce you to today's guest, Alissa Timoshkina. In her teenage years, she left Russia for England. Now, having moved through a career in academia, she is a London based writer, cookbook author, creator of KinoVino, and activist. Most recently, Alissa and her dear friend, Olia Hercules, founded Cook for Ukraine, an initiative they started within 48 hours of the war on Ukraine by Russia. To date, they have raised approximately 1 million pounds which has been donated to UNICEF. Aliss and Olia who has shown tremendous bravery and leadership in calling out the atrocities of this war and continuing to raise awareness and funds for the people of Ukraine. To connect with Alissa and Olia, you can follow them on instagram and all the details of Cook for Ukraine are linked on their websites. @alissatimoshkina @oliahercules https://www.alissatimoshkina.com/https://www.alissatimoshkina.com/cookforukraine
Ally is joined by Alissa Timoshkina, chef, KinoVino supper club founder, and author of Salt and Time: Recipes from a Russian Kitchen to discuss this somewhat notorious drama from the late 1980s glastnost period a few years before the Soviet Union collapsed. Expect SPOILERS from about 55 minutes in until the end. CONTENT WARNING: During the film it is revealed that one of the characters was from a present day standpoint in some jurisdictions the victim of statutory rape (Soviet law defined the age of consent as when an individual had reached puberty). There is also a fairly explicit sex scene. Little Vera stars Natalya Negoda, Andrey Sokolov, Yuri Nazarov, Lyudmila Zaytseva, and Alexandra Tabakova. Check out Alissa's amazing culinary creations at: www.instagram.com/borsch_and_no_tears/ If you'd like to get in touch and tell us what you thought of the film and/or the podcast episode, it would be great to hear from you! Here are some ways you can do that: Twitter: @RussophilesU Email: russophilesunite@gmail.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/russophilesunite Instagram: www.instagram.com/russophiles_unite/ Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/Ally_ Support the show/fund Ally's caffeine habit at: https://ko-fi.com/russophilesunite
Alissa Timoshkina is a chef, food and film writer, and the founder of the KinoVino supper club. Today she joins Lara and Livvy to discuss Soviet food culture, her journey from film to cookery, and ‘the cabbage myth’. Table Talk is a series of podcasts where Lara Prendergast and Olivia Potts talk to celebrity guests about their life story, through the food and drink that has come to define it.
Alissa Timoshkina is a chef, food and film writer, and the founder of the KinoVino supper club. Today she joins Lara and Livvy to discuss Soviet food culture, her journey from film to cookery, and ‘the cabbage myth’.
Khoollect met Alissa Timoshkina; founder of cinema supper club KinoVino to talk about her inspiration for her company and to provide tips on how to host the perfect New Year dinner party. Sponsored by Knorr, Colman's, Hellmann's and Maille.